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...more depressing truisms of the day: Young people hate old songs. They don?t get the smoothness, the optimism, the careful rhyming. Precision of lyric and emotion is so uncool it?s almost Republican. (Worse then Republican: most of them would rather listen to Cheney than to Cole Porter.) For them, the Great American Song Book might as well be in Esperanto - a language not worth knowing. Kids don?t think of a standard by Gershwin or Kern or Rodgers as a failed version of a new song. It just isn?t music to them...
...remind myself that songs of the 60s are as distant from today?s kids as songs of the teens and 20s were to me... well, I have an answer for that, too. I liked those old songs! It?s simple courtesy for them to give a tolerant listen to the music of my youth. They might even learn to like...
Everything democracy stands for is violated by the current convention, and it’s time for the party to listen to its citizens, to invite some of them to let their voices be heard. The DNC opened its doors to the nations’ media—constructing a tent from which they could file stories, setting up wireless connections for bloggers—and it is high time that they let the nation’s citizens participate...
...could just tell that people were going to listen to this person, that they were going to follow him. He had this kind of calm about him that is quite remarkable for someone his age,” he said...
...criticize the rest of the Bush administration in equally harsh terms, though just short of explicitly. “I will have a vice president who will not conduct secret meetings with polluters to rewrite our environmental laws. I will have a secretary of defense who will listen to the best advice of our military leaders. And I will appoint an attorney general who actually upholds the Constitution of the United States...