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...drive toward detente was remarkable but not altogether unexpected. With North Korea, like China, gaining recognition from more and more countries in recent months, Park had to face the fact that the North is no longer considered an untouchable. Not to be outdone, North Korean Premier Kim II Sung at week's end announced the creation of a "national congress" to work toward a peaceful reunification of the two countries. Park, however, is not yet ready to take the final plunge. The softening of relations, he said, "does not signify our recognition of the North as a state...
This is the voice of love." For the next nine hours, there is a mixture of music, news and cheerful chatter. The music is often hard: lots of rock interspersed with golden oldies sung in Arabic, Hebrew and English. But the main pitch is soft: "We will sell peace with music, for everyone with music has a right to love...
...spiritual gifts as the ability to "prophesy" (not predicting events, but uttering spiritual messages from God), the power to heal, and, perhaps most controversial of all, the ability to speak in "tongues," known technically as glossolalia. The weird sounds of glossolalia, a primitive kind of communication, either spoken or sung and without any apparent meaning, disturb Christians outside the movement. Among Charismatics, though, glossolalia has two functions-private devotion and public prayer or prophecy...
...with no context, except its lack of context. A large part of his success is due to the fact that Simon's fame has reached a point where he may indulge his creativity. He can command appearances by the Dixie Hummingbirds, move into Muscle Shoals, have his falsetto parts sung...
...Kodachrome" is Simon's fling at whimsy, and "American Tune" his cliche. His use of The Onward Brass Band on "Take Me to the Mardi Gras" is a piece of self-indulgent authenticity which is barely necessary. There is a beautifully sung lullaby, "St. Judy's Comet," not really a lullaby at all, rather a hymn to the father who rarely babysits, and actually one of those rolling hills, green fields country songs with throwaway guitar lines. "Was a Sunny Day" seems obligatory, cute and Caribbean in music and tone -- even the phrasing approaches the West Indian lilt...