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IN PRAISE OF SCIENCE    O'DELL

In dealing with this, one is reminded of a current song by the popular Afro-American vocal group "The Fifth Dimensions" whose social comment, through their art, has made them one of the moving creative forces in music today. Part of the lyrics are:

Ashes to ashes-- dust to dust
can you find the Milky Way?
"Long Tall Sally" and "Tin Pan Alley"
have seen their dyin' day;

Ashes to ashes-- dust to dust
it'll never be the same

But we're all forgiven and we're only livin'
to leave the way we came....

We're flyin' faster now than Orville flew
We leave our mark on every single thing we do;

Ashes to ashes-- dust to dust
it's the way the West was won,
Amos'n Andy and nickel candy
have fallen to the gun

Ashes to Ashes-- dust to dust
it'll never be the same---*

Art of this kind eloquently expresses the continued vitality, strength and humanity of our people despite all attempts at eroding our basic working-class democratic tradition. We are still healthy as our Freedom Movement turns its face towards the challenges which will shape the 21st Century. 

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* Copyright 1973 Bell Records, A Division of Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. 

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