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...people as these guys do." Napier, who has dwelt in past sermons on Yellow Submarine and Eleanor Rigby, is convinced that Sgt. Pepper "lays bare the stark loneliness and terror of these lonely times," and he plans to focus on the album in an address to freshman students. Atlan ta Psychiatrist Tom Leland says that the Beatles "are speaking in an existential way about the meaninglessness of actuality." There is even a womb's-eye view. Chicago Psychiatrist Ner Littner believes that the Beatles' "strong beat seems to awaken echoes of significant early experiences such as the fetal...
Barbed Wire & Bren Guns. Before the new pacification program began, many a shifta tended his herd by day and turned terrorist at night. He was hard to catch because he kept constantly on the move. Now thousands of Somalis have been shunted into manyat-ta (protected villages), a safe distance from the Somalia border. Such tribes as the Turkanas and the Boran, which have been nomadic for centuries, have been settled along with them in rows of dome-shaped huts that are protected from terrorists by barbed wire and Kenyan troops armed with Bren guns. At the same time, with...
...ranks well filled. As a result, they are turning more and more to women to help the war effort. Backing up Victor Charlie-the G.I.s' name for the Viet Cong-are the female Victoria Charlenes, some of whom actually fight. The V.C.'s attractive, much-advertised heroine, Ta Thi Kieu, packs four rifles at a time and boasts that she has participated in 33 battles. The vast majority of the Victoria Charlenes perform the myriad tasks that are needed to aid a guerrilla army operating in a hostile countryside without modern systems of supply, transport or communications...
...version of the story that Christoph Gluck wrote 30 years earlier. Apparently influenced by his exposure to England's oratorio tradition, Haydn composed Orfeo for a chorus and orchestra much larger than he had previously used. The heavy dose of choral music and the numerous arias in sona ta form make much of the opera sound like an oratorio. The chorus, for example, joins in a love duet with Sutherland and Gedda in the early scenes, sings a lament for the dead Euridice, and in the third act consoles Orfeo with four lengthy passages. But the opera also sparkles...
Although we did it well, it is not us. Too ticky-tacky and rah-tata-ta. We are more clang, zip, boom. I think we're heavier--at least we're louder...