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Subversive children's music!! Oh, no!! - Kidsbeat: ideas don't music for children & the people who make it
NEWS FLASH!! This week the U.S. Office for Protection Of Our Patriotic Songs (P.O.O.P.S.) has uncovered a shocking plot that threatens the very fabric ......(Continue Reading) North of July: the town of Wrangell, Alaska, celebrates our nation's independence with a mountainous spirit and a heartfelt homecoming that beckons friends
Look--orcas!" Off the bow of the ferry, a pair of tall dorsal fins break the milky jade-color waters of Alaska's Inside Passage. For Ken Hoyt, ......(Continue Reading)Sacred words, profane music? The Free Monks as a musical phenomenon in contemporary Greek Orthodoxy
The Free Monks (Eleftheroi) are a Greek Orthodox rock band of black-robed monks. Being the first of its kind in Greece, the group has produced popular ......(Continue Reading)A Fourth Of July Salute To Patriotic Movies
Hollywood has a long history of paying tribute to the nation's glory. FOR TWO GENERATIONS in my family, the required Fourth of July movie-viewing experience has been "Yankee Doodle Dandy" (1942),...(Continue Reading)Prisoner, Fancy-Man, Rowdy, Lawyer, Physician, Priest: Whitman's Brags
Wordsworth never thought that men, rustic or civilized, habitually spoke in iambic pentameter. When he tried to turn the "real language of men" into poetry, ......(Continue Reading)
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