To: Cincinatus' Wife; WXRGina
the ultimate song of hopeless yearning, Somewhere Over The Rainbow.
Calling Somewhere Over The Rainbow "the ultimate song of hopeless yearning", is a window offering a vile view into the culture of NYC and journalism. I hope the author enjoys the hell with which their life has brought them.
22 posted on
03/10/2012 5:43:14 AM PST by
Vision
("Did I not say to you that if you would believe, you would see the glory of God?" John 11:40)
To: Vision
Calling Somewhere Over The Rainbow "the ultimate song of hopeless yearning", is a window offering a vile view into the culture of NYC and journalism. I hope the author enjoys the hell with which their life has brought them. the best version ever I don't know about hopeless yearning, but this song is sublime when sung by an artist. Here's a version by the best singer who never made it big.
37 posted on
03/10/2012 6:55:36 AM PST by
Dick Vomer
(democrats are like flies, whatever they don't eat they sh#t on.)
To: Vision; Cincinatus' Wife
Perhaps the author hates the sheer Americanism of "Over the Rainbow," which is typical of leftists.
From "Over the Rainbow's" Wiked-pedia entry:
It was adopted (along with Irving Berlin's "White Christmas") by American troops in Europe in World War II as a symbol of the United States--in fact, Garland even performed the song for American troops as part of a 1943 command performance.
41 posted on
03/10/2012 8:11:33 AM PST by
WXRGina
(Further up and further in!)
To: Vision
I’m gonna have to agree with the Daily News writer on that one. “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” is NOT a song of Christian hope in the afterlife. Although its highly reasonable to expect that Heaven might be the fulfillment of such a longing, — there’s nothing anti-Christian about it, and there’s Christian precedent for reading “wish upon a star” as “prayer borne by an angel to Christ,” so that it’s not pagan — the song is more wistful than hopeful.
49 posted on
03/12/2012 6:11:11 AM PDT by
dangus
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