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...Odysseus thesis, he responds--in the most generous, droll, affable, Hanksian way--that I'm full of crap. "They each have their voyages, but I guess I don't see that [similarity]. The danger of getting home was inherent in Jim Lovell's choice to go to the moon. I guess Captain Miller [fits], but I don't think he ever thought he was going to get home. The question for him came down to 'I hope I'm the same person if I get home...
Throughout his career, Neil Young's musical style has swung from periods of intense electric to pensive acoustic. Young's latest album is a return to the latter. Silver & Gold picks up where Harvest Moon left off eight years ago. All of the album's ten songs are love songs, in some form, and set to a folk or country sound. For most rockers, this combination may sound silly, but for Young the effect is sweet and touching. His lyrics are direct, which sometimes works well, as on the ballad "Good to See You"-"Good to see you/Good...
Musically, Silver & Gold is subdued-not as bright as Harvest Moon, but rich in texture and a pleasure to listen to. The album is a confident attempt for Young to reach a higher personal level in his music. Although the experiment sometimes falls short, when it does succeed the results are delightful...
...worry, though: there's no need to cash in your IRA quite yet. For one thing, today doesn't have the closest alignment of planets in 6,000 years; in fact, the alignment has often been closer, very much so in 1861. For another, the changing distance of the moon in its monthly orbit has many times the gravitational effect on the earth of all of the planets combined. One would thus expect this kind of "polar shift" several times a week...
...accident of history that the first Earth Day, in April 1970, came so soon after color photographs of the whole earth from space were made by homesick astronauts on the Apollo 8 mission to the moon in December...