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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Addis Ababa, a senior military officer pulled down a copy of The Living Bible from his library shelves one evening recently and began reading from a chapter in Isaiah.* "Israel's kings will be like babies, ruling childishly. And the worst sort of anarchy will prevail, everyone trampling on someone else, neighbors fighting neighbors, youths revolting against authority, criminals sneering at honorable men." He paused and said sadly: "That is precisely the situation we now have in this country...
Silly Love Songs is just the sort of tune that comes at the unwary out of car radios and open windows, attaching itself like a particularly stubborn lap cat. It will probably never go away. The brazen breeziness of the music is unshakable...
...sort of refined disco tune, made for dancing and casual listening. At every concert Silly Love Songs gets the same amuck reception as Yesterday or any of the other five Beatles tunes McCartney performs during the course of the evening. Sometimes even bigger. Like much of McCartney's recent work, the song slips neatly, without fuss, into the mainstream...
Still, at his best McCartney writes words and music with the sort of unruffled brilliance and canny razzle-dazzle that can put both Sedaka and songs like Listen to What the Man Said straight in the shade. Take this example from Band...
Exam periods, the season in which any sort of diversion comes as a welcome relief from the grind, have never been rich in entertainment for the dizzy Harvard student. But one outlet for diversion which can be trusted each biannual drought is WHRB, 95.3 on your dial, which this year brings better-than-ever orgies right into the bedrooms of anxious and dissipated students on every edge of campus. Ranging from the traditional Arturo Toscanini Orgy to the sublime Bach Cantatas Orgy to the eclectic Northern New Jersey Orgy, featuring the mellifluous tones of (no, not the Jersey turnpike) some...