Scotch on the Rocks
Correspondence Scotch on the Rocks Andrew Peyton Thomas is an excellent historian of country music, but he is a little shaky on the history of colonial immigration (“‘I See by Your Outfit,’”...
...Next to Stalin and Hitler, Elvis Presley is the most prolific murderer of the century...
...With Bill Clinton getting over 60 percent job approval despite his crimes and decadence, it appears they have succeeded all too well...
...He once told a group assigned as forward observers, “You’re meat for the hill...
...Correspondence Scotch on the Rocks Andrew Peyton Thomas is an excellent historian of country music, but he is a little shaky on the history of colonial immigration (“‘I See by Your Outfit,’” March 8...
...As great as they were as fighters and builders, the Greatest Generation’s record as parents is less impressive...
...After all, just look at what he wantonly killed...
...Epstein eloquently describes what I have been feeling for over 40 years...
...Clinton also probably thought that Juanita Broaddrick should have submitted consensually so that he did not have to bite her lip in the course of forcing her submission...
...I am not familiar with the song “Sallie Gooden,” but if it is indeed “Scotch-Irish,” it is from the 18th, not the 19th, century...
...Lanny R. Middings San Ramon, CA Not the Greatest Parents In examining Sen...
...Of course, not all Baby Boomers turned out to be ’60s brats, but all too many did, and these children make up the Culture War leadership whose goal is to transform the counterculture into the mainstream...
...As our communications officers speculated, “From S3 to ambulance chaser...
...With his popularizing the opprobrious and cacophonous rock ’n’ roll “music,” the talentless Presley drove a poisonous stake deep into the heart of popular music because with the deplorable ascendancy of rock ’n’ roll, the truly marvelous love ballads and stirring musical compositions of genuine talents such as Gershwin, Porter, Kern, Berlin, Rodgers, Mercer, Carmichael, and others were no longer being written...
...When I arrived at the 37th Field Artillery Battalion of the Second Division there were still some veterans of Heartbreak Ridge...
...How ironic that a generation including Audie Murphy, Major Bong, and Marion Carl could produce offspring such as James Carville, Sidney Blumenthal, and Craig Livingstone...
...The maddening fact that generations of young people have never heard, much less appreciated, the sublime voices of Dick Haymes, Sarah Vaughn, June Christy, Billy Eckstine, Jo Stafford, and others too numerous to mention, or the entrancing music of Stan Kenton, Duke Ellington, Glenn Miller, Count Basie, Artie Shaw, and other great bands also too numerous to list makes my eyes brim with tears and my heart ache with anguish...
...More than anything else, the blame for the death of “popular music” can be laid at the blue-sueded feet of the iniquitous Elvis Presley...
...Scotch-Irish” is a self-referential term of art which applies to Irish Protestants (mostly Presbyterians) who immigrated to the American colonies between roughly 1718 and 1775...
...Small wonder Paul Weyrich has concluded that America no longer has a moral majority...
...And some of the good ones produced offspring such as Charles Ruff, who used post-modernist word games to explain that although President Clinton appeared to lie under oath, he did not commit perjury—because in his own mind he was trying to tell the truth...
...We rotated home at the same time and he told me that his plan was to complete law school...
...From sacrifice and heroism to sleaze and thuggery...
...Bob Kerrey’s review of Tom Brokaw’s The Greatest Generation, it should be noted that while the World War II generation’s achievements are comparable to the Revolutionary War and Civil War generations’, those two generations were not followed 20 years later by anything like the ’60s brats (“World of Our Fathers,” March 8...
...George Weber Portland, OR...
...Wellsburg, WV The King Is Dead Joseph Epstein’s “Can’t Take That Away From Me” left me shaking with emotion (Casual, March 1...
...As an artillery forward observer and reconnaissance and survey officer in Korea in 1952 and 1953, I served with several of the Greatest Generation who had either stayed in the service or been recalled...
...John A. McCreary Sr...
...Much of our battalion’s success was due to the competence of our operations officer, a veteran of the Pacific in World War II...
...The term “Scotch-Irish” was not used in Ireland—nor in America— until the 19th century, when the descendants of these immigrants adopted it to distinguish themselves from the Irish Catholics who were then coming to America...
...They came mostly from the eastern part of Ulster—now Northern Ireland...
...A few months later, the division also came through in an even bigger battle at White Horse Ridge...
...However, all of us who knew him agreed he was one of the most personally obnoxious people we had ever met...
...Most of the Greatest Generation were good people, but not all of them...
Vol. 4 • March 1999 • No. 26
