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66A Haiku Poem About Being Alone
What is a haiku? Read a haiku about being alone and learn to write your own. Enjoy National Poetry Month with haiku!
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76Melancholic Tunes - A Playlist
I cannot explain why occasion stirs desire for melancholic retrospect -- but it does. The slow droned guitar chords, perfect harmony of singer's voice with instrument -- create a powerful platform for lyrics reflective of societal challenges...
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63The Legacy of a Legend
To borrow the lyrics from an old Simon and Garfunkel song from the 60's--"Joltin' Joe has left and gone away. Hey, hey, hey." No, not Joe DiMaggio, but Joe Paterno. Joe Paterno, who made his fame as the winningest coach in college football came to...
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77Song Analysis: "Sound of Silence" by Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel
“Would it not be better to compare the relative merits of washing machines than in the strength of rockets?” President Richard Nixon asked during the American National Exhibition in Moscow. What seems like a dim-witted question utterly reflects...
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63BLOW UP THE BRIDGE OVER TROUBLING WATER: Singers are not Priest
Popular musicians such as Elvis Presley, Aretha Franklin, Whitney Houston and John Bon Jovi have reissued the call to lie down. Therefore they encourage personal covert attacks upon individuals in a sickening society. These are and where great singers and professional musicians’ who are not priests.
63Simon & Garfunkel's America - a personal view.
‘Let us be lovers, we’ll marry our fortunes together.' So goes the opening line from America, by Simon & Garfunkel, sung with a gentle beauty following the quiet, melancholic acoustic chords and harmonic humming that introduces the song to...
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74Here's to You Mrs. Robinson
Here's to you Mrs. Robinson...The Graduate, adapted from the book by Charles Webb, introduces us to the seductive Mrs. Robinson. What is the draw of this fictitious character? Is she the bored alcoholic or the symbol of female independence? Then,Forty years later a real Mrs. Robinson lives in Ireland.
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56First Day at School: The Sound of Silence
Quiet returns to our household after the children start their new school year.
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56The Many Paradigms of Home
Home is something different to everyone. The view we have of home is affected by everything and everyone in our lives. These songs about "Home" describe very different views.
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75Music of the Late 60's and Early 70's | Hippie Songs that have Stood the Test of Time
The message and songs from the hippie era carry on today with artists from a new generation.
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