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Unlike the Bob Dylans and Eric Claptons of the industry who market "unplugged" re-recordings of obsolete songs, Guthrie updates his editorial banter perennially. Songs which originally lampooned and criticized the horror and stupidity of the Vietnam War have accumulated, over the years, addenda about Watergate, the Carter Administration, global warming, NAFTA, politically correct children's books, the brainless television industry and the astonishing post-mortem Beatles reunion, as well as any number of other current events...
...were acquiring a gray garbage bag with yellow drawstrings and a map of Newark, Delaware, to help them find a Comfort Inn off the highway, where birth and death could come and go in a moment. Was there ever a second when one of them was shocked by the horror of it all and said, "No, we can't do this. Have we lost our minds?" only to be talked back into it by the other? Did they hear a cry or blurt out, "It's a boy"? Afterward, they slept for a few hours and took...
...original contribution stemmed from his first viewing, earlier in 1907, of African masks and fetishes at a Paris museum. He imposed such masks on the face of two of his demoiselles, thereby rendering these commercial temptresses both alluring and monstrous. Richardson writes, "Familiarity has inured us to the horror that these dog-faced demoiselles caused when they were first unveiled, almost a century ago. It was as if Picasso had unleashed a new race of gorgons on the world...
This is the kind of silliness that Hicks falls into. His entire argument revolves around a pathological fear of self-interested adolescents. What if these kids grow up and remain self-interested, he seems to ask with horror in his voice. We have to wonder whether his concern is really all that pressing. Sure, if the adolescents are really awful, then maybe, just maybe, Hicks' beloved boarding schools have some reason for sticking around. But this seems unlikely...
...Jones just sounds pompous and elitist when he calls Gibson's speech "a mockery of the Harvard tradition." Does the tradition not allow a joke or two, and horror of horrors, even a little profanity. You're correct Mr. Jones, Gibson did not have any grand theories of wisdom or life-altering realizations, and maybe by your standards that means his speech was worthless. Well forgive me if I don't buy into your standards, but I thought Mel Gibson was generous to donate his time, and worth listening to if only because of his humor and joviality. If those...