In article <Xns9A5FCDA5AD5BEmoonblanchedgmailcom@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Dover Beach <moon.blanched@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> There's a new "American Masters" do***entary on PBS about Pete Seeger.
> It's not exactly wor****pful, but it ain't critical. I just want to roll
> up a newspaper and smack these people. All these people who called
> themselves Communists? You keep using that word. I do not think it
> means what you think it means.
It meant members of the Communist Party. What did you think?
> If the folk singers had had a formal
> smug-off with McCarthy and Cohn, I think all the oxygen would have been
> sucked out of the U.S.
Well, except that one of those sides tried to suppress the freedoms of
speech and association and managed to wreck many lives, and the other
tried to fight back.
> "Little Boxes", hey! **** you, Malvina.
So angry. Why? It wasn't a very artful song, but it was one of the first
expressions of doubt about post-war suburbs, and metaphorically, the
conformism of the 1950s.
>
> Politics is too much about aesthetics and in-crowds, no matter what team
> you're on.
>
Seeger and his contem****aries were not the in-crowd. They were on the
fringe, their politics and organizations made illegal, they were
blacklisted so they couldn't earn a living. Many of them spent time in
prison for political reasons.
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bill
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