Word: written
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jerry. Then practically made Elvis. So many songs: "Hound Dog," "Heartbreak Hotel," "Little Egypt," on and on and on. "Jailhouse Rock," according to Peter Hayes, who anyone who is at all hip in Cambridge should know, or at least heard of, says: 'Jailhouse Rock' is the greatest song ever written." It's true...
...Happiness is a Warm Gun" is a terrifying song about suicide written no doubt by Lennon. For all his self-parody in "Glass Onion" Lennon does handle images masterfully in this song to convey a real sense of personal anguish. He speaks of himself in the third person...
George Harrison has come up with one of his finest songs in a long time with "Savoy Truffle," which is all about getting your teeth pulled out because you have had too many irresistible desserts to eat. Written with uncommon (for Harrison) felicity the song is uncommonly (for Harrison) witty...
...that the death penalty should be struck down because California law offers no guidelines to help juries decide whether a convicted man should go to prison or the gas chamber. "If a civilized society cannot say why one man should be executed and another not," replied the dissenting opinion written by Justice Mathew Tobriner, "it does not rationally, logically take life. Instead, it grossly denies due process of law, inflicting death on the basis of a trial that is capricious, discriminatory and guess-infected." In reply, the majority pointed out that there are safeguards against arbitrary jury action...
...Bosch leads the field as a demonic painter; his surrealism still makes an indelible if no longer credible impression. The plates are plentiful, inclining in the heavenly to cool greens and blues, and in the infernal nightmares to somewhat hotter tones. Critic Hughes, who is also a poet, has written the text, which stands in its own right as a guided tour of the history and topography of the spiritual cosmos...