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...Stephen Foster and Scott Joplin, George Gershwin and Aaron Copland, classic blues and '70s California pop); it gives symphonic heft to his cagey misanthropy, makes the tunes endlessly listen-to-able. The jauntiest tune in the new set, a sashaying march for Great Nations of Europe, accompanies a brilliantly bleak history of New World colonization, slaughter and disease ("Columbus sailed for India/ Found Salvador instead/He shook hands with some Indians and soon they all were dead/They got TB and typhoid and athlete's foot/Diphtheria and the flu/Excuse me--Great Nations coming through!"). The song's caustic end: that "some...
Despite the bleak outlook for public schools, civic spirit is running high in Philadelphia if you measure it another way. Thanks to a $160 million package of public financing approved by the state legislature in February, the Eagles and Phillies will soon get new stadiums. Across the state in Pittsburgh, where the public schools anticipate a $30 million shortfall in the next budget, the Pirates and Steelers will also get new homes, with the state kicking in $160 million toward the cost...
Aside from that, the results looked pretty bleak for the Crimson...
...year that has seen the hopes for a campus student center dashed and several final clubs close to guests would seem to promise a bleak social scene. But due to student innovation, and in some cases predilection for facts and figures, social opportunities at Harvard this year have expanded into new arenas...
These pieces are, for the most part, Wyoming grotesques. The people are hard, and the view bleak, tending toward melancholy. Brokeback Mountain is a surprise, the matter-of-fact, sorrowing, sketched life of a cowboy and his friend, married men, ordinary sorts, who over the decades never fully realize that they are gay. Real guys aren't gay, because, sex aside, they don't know how to be gay. A story called The Half-Skinned Steer is as grim as its title, and it begins, "In the long unfurling of his life, from tight-wound kid hustler in a wool...