Well said, Ken. There was joy. And hope. Even serial misanthrope Roger Waters, post Floyd, wrote The Tide is Turning, and it seemed to be. Pity we just dream up fresh demons, now with burkas and beards, to replace dour Reds. Other walls indeed, Doug.
Bill
> On 13 Nov 2014, at 11:29 am, Andrew Burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Bringing the event home, Ken, good one.
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>> On 13 November 2014 03:31, Doug Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> Happy then sad, Kenneth. ('face' should be 'faced'?)
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>> I begin to think you need it because of the ogther kind of walls being
>> erected where you live, & even more so after Tuesday...
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>> Doug
>> On Nov 12, 2014, at 8:48 AM, Kenneth Wolman <[log in to unmask]>
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>>> When the Berlin Wall Finally Fell
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>>> When the Berlin Wall finally fell,
>>> Bernstein led the orchestra and chorus
>>> in Beethoven's 9th, and I was tearful
>>> even if it was "only politics," but
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>>> I could hear the joy, watch Lenny
>>> ihr ein Berliner, leaping up
>>> on every downbeat, sharing the joy
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>>> with a chorus of children, adults
>>> who'd lived beneath oppression,
>>> and I said to my confused kids,
>>> "remember what you see here,
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>>> remember it for all your lives,
>>> for it is their Passover, their
>>> celebration of deliverance."
>>> Did they, do they? Since 1989
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>>> they have face their own deliverance,
>>> the Ode to Joy is a special occasion,
>>> and they may roll it out of the recesses
>>> only if they need it.
>>> I need it.
>>>
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>> If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think
>> little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and
>> sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.
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