Cancer Journal

 I had intended this as a comment to the prior blog entry.  I started it, got called away and when I came back, it had disappeared.  If it could have been recovered, it was beyond my computer skills to do so.  So, here goes--again. The list of what has been banned in Boston, noted in the comments to blog # 93, makes for interesting reading.  The tendency is to read the list and respond with scorn and derision.  There's some pretty tame stuff on there, not that much of a whiff of the sexual.  Those banners really took protective care of the impressionable Bostonians!  Let me ask you to look at the list a little differently though.  Not through the eyes of those with current standards and priorities but through the eyes of the times.  That's hard.  We have placed such a premium on unrestrained free expression, especially concerning sexual subjects that it is about impossible to enter our imagination into a place where any whisper of a...

                                    “Wake up Little Suzy"--An Evaluation Wake up, little Susie, wake up Wake up, little Susie, wake up We've both been sound asleep Wake up, little Susie, and weep The movie's over It's four o'clock And we're in trouble deep Well, what are we gonna tell your mama? What are we gonna tell your pa? What are we gonna tell all our friends When they say, "Ooh la la! Well, I told your mama that You'd be in by ten Well, Susie, baby Looks like we goofed again The movie wasn't so hot It didn't have much of a plot We fell asleep Our goose is cooked Our reputation is shot Wake up, little Susie, wake up Wake up, little Susie, wake up We gotta get home “Wake up Little Suzy” was a hit song sung by the Everly Brothers in 1957.  It hit  # 1 on the Billboard Pop Charts that year and makes it...