[rollei_list] OT History

From: Peter Kotsinadelis <peterk727@xxxxxxxxx>
To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 08:12:56 -0800

Jon,

Are you saying you simply find today's culture lacking in
intelligence? If this is the case I would agree. You examples speak
volumes.

Peter K

On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 15:51:45 +0000, jon.stanton@xxxxxxxxxxx
<jon.stanton@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I just watched the movie "DeLovely", the story of Cole Porter's life and =
music.  His songs are wonderful and are some of the best examples of Americ=
an culture, which is strongest in the popular culture.
>=20
> "American Culture"?  Mutually exclusive terms unless we are discussing
> something in a Petri dish....
> Cole composed as did fellow Hoosier Hoagy, for a different era. The kids =
today have never heard of Porter, Carmichael, Mercer, Kern, Gershwin.
> Today we have lyrics "I'm gonna get you sucka..ya rotten motha f..ka"
> Saul Bellow in his Nobel Prize speach said "We have become a land of Phil=
listines"  Indeed!!!
>=20
>=20


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Peter K
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