Friday, January 6, 2012
"Cool, Cool, Considerate Men"
Video from the musical "1776". Seems like similar issues have been debated for quite a long time. Even though these men more or less did not get their way, the independence vote went on to inspire the same throughout the west. The west went on to prosper in ways never before imagined. This doesn't mean we can't work to continuously improve upon a "good thing".
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Political changes:
The song "Cool, Cool, Considerate Men" depicts Revolutionary War–era conservatives as power-hungry wheedlers focused on maintaining wealth. According to Jack L. Warner, the film's producer and a friend of U.S. President Richard Nixon, Nixon pressured him to cut the song from the 1972 film version of the show, which Warner did. Nixon apparently saw the song as an insult to the conservatives of his time. Warner also wanted the original negative of the song shredded, but the film's editor secretly kept it intact. It was only decades later that the song was restored to the film."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776_(film)
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