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...From the hit A Boy Named Sue, sung by Johnny Cash: "He came up with a knife and cut off a piece...
...symbol for everything that was ersatz in American life, for the phoniness and stifling conformity of the adult world Benjamin was being asked to join. The word itself was an epithet, as in "Plastic Pat" Nixon or these Jimi Hendrix lyrics from the song If 6 Was 9, talked-sung with a straight face and an up-the-Establishment disregard for grammar: "White collared conservative flashing down the street,/Pointing their plastic finger...
Readings followed from the Hebrew Bible, read in Hebrew by Ethan M. Tucker '97 and in English by Kevin C. Scott '97; the Hindu Vedas, sung in Sanskrit by Kanakalalshmi Pattabiraman '97 and read in translation by Christine M. Perez...
...portion of the Koran was sung in Arabic by Irfan Siddiqui '97 and read in English by First Marshal Allyson V. Hobbs...
...starting to come back to me. I remembered that, when trying to lull them back to sleep, I hadn't recited The Canterbury Tales; I had sung an old World War II ditty called If I Had It to Do All Over Again, I'd Do It All Over You. It had seemed more appropriate at the time...