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...door and changed what I thought about music (hell, before that, I owned both Wilson Phillips albums), not the Counter-Reformation that restored orthodoxy and maturity. It was simpler then. Before Trent and all that. Before I became Pollyanna. I know a lot of it may be just pose, but I walk by the Pit kids and I’m envious of the certainty of their musical allegiances...
...people toward rebellion. Science, Christianity, liberalism, democracy - these were all very interesting objects of study for the Elite and if you picked and chose carefully, some of these ideas might serve as useful tools to build a more modern, more powerful nation. But in the wrong hands, they could pose great dangers. Before you knew it, people might start demanding more liberties, as indeed at various times they did. That is why the more authoritarian Japanese leaders and their intellectual apologists liked to pretend that foreign ideas were nothing more than tools...
...eager to welcome them, coming as they did on the heels of some intensely boring presentations. Fortunately, C60 didn’t disappoint, with blistering guitar attacks and wild gyrations injecting energy into a flagging atmosphere. I noticed however, that all their rebellious posturing seemed very much like a pose. Their “spontaneous” thrashing appearing self-conscious and rehearsed...
...Representatives of St Martin's press say rising Lonely Planet sales could pose a real threat to the Let's Go empire...
...nudity b) Book of Mormon forbids "fitching" c) IOC kickbacks are too pricey d) if Orrin Hatch won't pose, Orrin Hatch suffers...