European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 1, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 18 the stars and stripes monday september 1.1986 today s crossword subways Nof for making music Brand Rooney they be finally gone to far inc american civil liberties Union one of my favorite organizations is defending the right of people to play musical instruments in new York City subway stations As a Means of begging for Money some of these Young musicians arc pretty Good you Sec them on Street Corners As Well As in subway marions All Over town. A Friend has a son who walks up and Down lines waiting to get into movies on week ends playing his violin and offering a Baskel for peo ple a drop Money into. Bogging like this is the Young Man s Only source of income and his father and Mother say he docs quite Well. Their attitude is is Range. 1 Don t think they re proud of him bul icy Don t try to hide it and they seem somewhat amused by in. It s my personal Opin Ion that their son ought to be spanked and put to bed without his supper or his violin even though he s 30 years old. I Don t say that to them. Most of these Street musicians Are inoffensive bul i Don t believe they have the Law on their Side and i can t understand Why the Acle has come to their defense. What about the Resi of us who like silence Acle where do our rights Start Why does my Friend s son have the right to dominate the sound and atmosphere of a movie line what if i m standing with someone i enjoy talking to if he has the right to play on the Street or in the subway do i have the right Lowland Neit to him with a Siren and drown out Bis noise with a noise of my own when one person s Freedom 10 do something in fringes on another a the question of Freedom gets into deep Walcer another Friend of mine had the Best time of his life on a new York subway the other Day. He was Silling there Reading his paper when three Young punks got on the train with a radio blaring loud Rock music. My Friend was thinking about moving to another car be cause in addition to not liking the noise he did l like the looks of the three Young men. At this Point another passenger wearing Blue jeans and a Cap pulled Down Over his eyes asked the Young men to turn of their radio hey. Man one of them said Why Don t you. He uttered a comment that can l be repeated Here. "1 said turn off the radio the Man in Blue Jean said firmly. The three youths started toward him. At this Point the Man whipped Oul his new York cily police badge. At the next Stop he handcuffed the three together and took them off the train. Where would the Acle stand on that several weeks ago i was in bed ready to go to sleep when 1 heard music through the open window. It was loud incessant and unusual for the neighbourhood. I Lay there getting angrier by the minute until i could t stand in any longer t got up pulled pants on Over my pyjamas Pul on a spurt and sneakers and headed for the sounds. As i approached the source of the music a neighbor came walking toward me. What s going on i asked her of it s a High school graduation party she sighed. They have notices posted on the Trees saying they la move inside at i turned and headed for Home. 1 was t going to be a graduation party proper. In a Case like his the Only thing to do is surrender your Freedom to have Sile Celo a group of Young people who want to be free to have noise with their fun for one night. Sign off and gird your loins by James kilpa1 Rick what is an idiom Webster s is not much help. The ninth new collegiate defines it As an expression in the usage of a language that is Peculiar to itself either grammatically or in having a meaning thai cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its the example Given is monday week meaning the monday after a week after nem monday. In occurs to me Hal to sign off has become an idiom undergoing a sea change. These Days when a president s Cabinet approves a statement of policy the Cabinet signs off on the statement. Jim Hapton editor of the Miami Herald recently explained How he and associate editor Joanna Wragg Pul Oul their Edito rial pages. Either individually or Joi nity they sign off on they of it. In the old Days of radio to sign off meant to go off the air there were no connotations of approval or acceptance bul there arc now. I m nol sure that girding one s loins is an idiom it May be a metaphor or a cliche bul it turns up constantly. Nol Long ago sen Bob Packwood r-orc., remarked that lobbyists were girding their loins for the conference committee on tax Reform. The phrase appears Al least Isicc in the old Testa ment. In exodus 12, the lord is ibo i to smite Egypt. He instructs Moses in How to prepare a Lamb dinner before the smiting begins and thus pc shall eat in with your loins girded your shoes on your feet and your staff in your in 1 Kings 18, in the familiar Story of Elijah running from the Cloud no bigger than a Man s hand he girded up his loins and before Ahab to the Entrance of Brewer s dictionary of phrase and fable explains that the jews wore a Girdle Only when a work or on a journey so they girded their loins Only for these Pur poses. Today the phrase carries a martial Conn Nota Tion. We gird our loins for Battle. No problem seems to have replaced of course in the vocabulary of amenities. Would you open the door no could you come Al a i venture no objection but that poor old overworked noun problem could use a Little More respect. How about spit Lin image when children strongly resemble their parents they Are said to be the spit tin image or the spit and image of their folks William and Mary Morris speculate that the phrase come from spirit and image which makes a in More sense. New verb on me Usa today reports thai the Dallas morning news has papered the Competition in i Lake it in mean to surpass dramatically or Sud Mea culpa and All that nol Long ago i undertook to instruct you readers Hority Stoity in the meaning of podium dais and lectern. 1 got it All wrong. A podium is the Small raised platform on which an orchestra conductor stands. A dais is a Large raised platform or stage. A lec Tern whether in the desk Model or the stand up Model Isth piece of furniture from which a lecturer Speaks. 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