On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Igor Roshchin <[email protected]> wrote: > > (oops, sent it first without subject) > > Frank, > > Good catch of the pose/composition. > > This photo reminded me of Tom Lehrer's introduction to his song > "The Folk Song Army": > > "One type of song that has come into increasing prominence in recent > months is the folk-song of protest. You have to admire people who sing > these songs. It takes a certain amount of courage to get up in a > coffee-house or a college auditorium and come out in favor of the things > that everybody else in the audience is against like peace and justice > and brotherhood and so on. The nicest thing about a protest song is that > it makes you feel so good."
Thanks, Igor, and thanks as well to everyone else who commented and looked. Tom Lehrer's little quote reminds me of the following quote from Abby Hoffman: "You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists." Thanks again. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
