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 The Greatest Generation? by Howard Zinn
I refuse to celebrate them as "the greatest generation" because in doing so we are celebrating courage and sacrifice in the cause of war.
And we are miseducating the young to believe that military heroism is the noblest form of heroism, when it should be remembered only as the tragic accompaniment of horrendous policies driven by power and profit.
I submit as additional candidates for "the greatest generation" those Americans who, in the decades before the Civil War, struggled against the takeover of Indian and Mexican lands.
www.thirdworldtraveler.com /Zinn/Greatest_Generation.html   (1213 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: The Greatest [Deluxe Digipack]: Music: Cat Power   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Opener, 'The Greatest', is utterly gorgeous, with string arrangements reminiscent of Moon River and, as the title implies, about a up-and-coming boxer; Lived in Bars is a bluesy masterpiece; Empty Shell is the most country-ish track here and my favourite; Willie, originally an 18minute epic, is slimmed down to 5 minutes but still works marvellously.
Single "The Greatest" is every bit as good as you would expect but it's by no means the only highlight on this brilliant album.
This is not to say that Marshall has gone over the edge in any way, yet in The Greatest her voice seems to reach for new tender corners and there's a certain compassion for her songs' characters in this album which- at least to me-have never been this apparent in the past.
www.amazon.co.uk /Greatest-Deluxe-Digipack-Cat-Power/dp/B000C0X3ZC   (1388 words)

  
 Cat Power: The Greatest (2006): Reviews
Despite the misleading title, 'The Greatest' is not a best-of collection, but rather is Chan Marshall's first album of original songs in three years.
Her ability to draw out more and more truth with each album is indisputable, and on The Greatest, she reaches a golden landmark of self-assurance.
Many of these new forms shift her into the role of a band leader - a role that, maybe, could solidify her as the "voice of a generation" that overzealous press releases have claimed her to be.
www.metacritic.com /music/artists/catpower/greatest   (1086 words)

  
 NBA History: The NBA's 50 Greatest Players
So boasts the collective resume of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History, selected by a blue-ribbon panel of media, former players and coaches, current and former general managers and team executives.
Joining Stern in the unveiling of the 50 Greatest Players, which tipped off the League's season-long NBA at 50 celebration, were four prominent members of the list -- Wilt Chamberlain, Julius "Dr. J" Erving, George Mikan and Bill Russell.
Panelists were asked to select the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History, without regard to position.
www.nba.com /history/50greatest.html   (262 words)

  
 Amby's Math Resources - Greatest Common Factors
The Greatest Common Factor (G.C.F.) of two numbers is the largest number that is a divisor of both.
It is sometimes called the Greatest Common Divisor.
Don't let the "greatest" in the name fool you - the GCF is no larger than the smallest of the numbers.
amby.com /educate/math/2-1_GCF.html   (440 words)

  
 100 Greatest Films
This selection of 100 Greatest Films, in the last century of film-making, covers - by conscious choice - a wide range of genres, decades, stars and directors.
These 'Greatest Films' refuse to fade from memory even after the long passage of time - they share the unifying fact of being seen and talked about decades after they were made.
Many of these Greatest Films were made many years ago, and overlooked when they were first released, yet they have endured the test of time.
www.filmsite.org /momentsindx.html   (790 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Greatest: Music: The Go-Go's   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
As Greatest Hits documents, their energy was at its peak with their debut album, especially on its other hit, "Our Lips Are Sealed." Later hits like "Vacation" and "Head Over Heels" could still get 'em out on the dance floor, but also characterized a bit of a mood swing for the band.
Since this is a greatest hits collection, I would have liked to see a short writeup on the history and impact of the band - especially during the three year hey-dey period.
But when it was released in 1990, "Greatest" was a pretty comprehensive hits package, and it's still a nice summary of the band's first wave, so to speak.
www.amazon.com /Greatest-Go-Gos/dp/B000001I0L   (2465 words)

  
 The FADER Magazine - Greatest Hits
The third track on Marshall’s new album, The Greatest, is called “In a Bar” and it begins as a bluesy, last-call number: simple piano chords and a sax moaning low alongside her voice, mellowed to a whiskey alto.
The Greatest was recorded in Memphis, Tennessee’s Ardent Studios, with members of the Hi Records’ rhythm band, including the brothers Teenie (guitar) and LeRoy (bassist) Hodges, and other Memphis legends like drummer Steve Potts, many of whom are now in their mid ’60s.
While the pain and sorrow of her previous albums were raw and hurt, this new album is the reflection of an artist who has hunkered down into those emotions: they are deep, mellowed, irreversible—the lyrical amber of someone who has gotten older but is still at war with herself.
www.thefader.com /blog/articles/2006/01/26/greatest-hits   (1599 words)

  
 Greatest hits - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Some bands refuse to release a greatest hits album, notably Radiohead.
The Manic Street Preachers initially refused to do a Greatest Hits, but in the end Forever Delayed was released.
A recent trend is for television shows to release "greatest hits" DVDs as a way to get new viewers interested in the show.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Greatest_hits   (667 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Bangles - Greatest Hits: Music: The Bangles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Greatest Hits puts it all in perspective, tracing the curve from the post-Beatles group sneer of "Hero Takes a Fall" to the deadly earnest Susanna Hoffs showcase of "Eternal Flame." Shortly after that ballad hit No. 1, the group split.
Their greatest hits collection culls together their finest songs which are among the catchiest of the 80's.
This greatest hits CD is the perfect collection for the person who doesn't want to go out and buy each individual album.
www.amazon.com /Bangles-Greatest-Hits/dp/B00000273M   (1530 words)

  
 101 screenplays
The resulting list is like a travelogue of the greatest films of the century, with all decades from the 1930s on represented among the rankings.
Like a composer of a classic symphony or an author of a beloved novel, the most memorable and moving pictures would not exist without their principal architect: the screenwriter.
Too often classic films are linked only to their stars or directors, overlooking the original artists who first put pen to paper - or more recently keyboard to laptop - to create the kind of enduring works that have entertained and inspired generations of movie-going audiences around globe.
www.wga.org /subpage_newsevents.aspx?id=1684   (298 words)

  
 Tom Brokaw | Books
In this superb book, Tom Brokaw goes out into America, to tell through the stories of individual men and women the story of a generation, America's citizen heroes and heroines who came of age during the Great Depression and the Second World War and went on to build modern America.
In this book, you will meet people whose everyday lives reveal how a generation persevered through war, and were trained by it, and then went on to create interesting and useful lives and the America we have today.
Through these and other stories in The Greatest Generation, you'll relive with ordinary men and women, military heroes, famous people of great achievement, and community leaders how these extraordinary times forged the values and provided the training that made a people and a nation great.
www.randomhouse.com /features/brokaw/books_greatest.html   (306 words)

  
 The Greatest Songwriters - AOL Music
Nash and Young, which was well-known for their turbulent relationship as much as their music, and the seminal garage band Crazy Horse.
Though some purists may argue that guitar hero Jimmy Page nicked as many notes from blues and folk standards as he composed himself, Led Zeppelin's pounding, intricate construction of heavy rock has become the blueprint for scores of current bands like the White Stripes and Audioslave.
AOL Music takes you back to school -- the school of rock that is. Find out everything you need to know about the greatest songwriters in the history of music and the albums they worked on.
music.aol.com /feature/greatest_songwriters   (1041 words)

  
 The Greatest American - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Greatest American was a public vote, modeled after the 100 Greatest Britons competition, in which citizens of the United States were asked to nominate, and then later vote for, "the Greatest American" of all time.
In the finale the top 5 Greatest Americans were announced as well as what percentage of the votes each had received.
The scientist, inventor, and founder of the Bell Telephone Company was born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1847, before moving to Brantford, Ontario in 1870.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Greatest_American   (757 words)

  
 The Greatest Canadian - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Officially launched on April 5, 2004, The Greatest Canadian was a project by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation to find out who is considered the greatest Canadian of all time.
As a result, the Greatest Canadians were selected with little French-Canadian input causing the French-Canadian minority to be under-represented in the results.
The "Greatest Canadian" was not decided by a simple popular poll, but was instead chosen through a two-step voting process.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Greatest_Canadian   (1360 words)

  
 America Celebrates the Greatest Generation
Let the spirit of the Greatest Generation sweep you away
"America Celebrates the Greatest Generation" is a 100-day tribute to the heroism of the World War II generation.
At the heart of the celebration is the long-awaited dedication of the National World War II Memorial.
www.washington.org /americacelebrates   (216 words)

  
 Who are the greatest Black Mathematicians?
Graham: American Carl Graham, the most junior of this group and a professor at École Polytécnic in Paris, was born in the U.S. but his African American mathematician father Eugene Graham emigrated to France where Graham was raised.
Gauss and Archimedes are the greatest mathematicians of all time, and those not even close have won Mathematics' Fields Medal or the Nevanlinna Prize.
Though a relatively recent award, the Fields Medal is sometimes known to the public as Mathematics' Nobel Prize, but that is a misnomer as the medal is only awarded to for work completed prior to the age of 40.
www.math.buffalo.edu /mad/madgreatest.html   (3128 words)

  
 The Greatest Lutheran Composer
Of all the composers in the world through the ages, one stands out as the best of all time: Johann Sebastian Bach.
Bach is considered to be the greatest Lutheran composer ever.
He once said, "Any devout man could do as much as I have done, if he worked as hard." Bach had been raised a Lutheran, in the tradition of hard work, love of God, strong faith, and respect for the music and traditions of the Lutheran church.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/lutheranism/36968   (647 words)

  
 The Greatest Vitamin In The World - As Seen On TV - Join Now! Order Vitamins! 100% RISK FREE!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Once again, most vitamin supplements today are using all the synthetic vitamins because they are cheap to manufacture.
Your body is worth more than a billion dollars and we believe we owe it to you to produce the greatest vitamin in the world, and that's exactly what we did!
Many people who take The Greatest Vitamin in the World notice they aren’t lethargic or sleepy after a meal, the discomfort of indigestion is gone and—for many—food allergies disappear.
www.greatest-vitamin-in-the-world.com   (715 words)

  
 The Greatest Vitamin in the World, endorsed by Don Lapre and presented by Torica LLC ™
The Greatest Vitamin in the World, endorsed by Don Lapre, is by far one of the most amazing vitamin supplements ever made.
The reason that Don Lapre approves The Greatest Vitamin in the World is because he recognized how important health was becoming to people around him, as well as to the whole United States.
So, he became a part of getting The Greatest Vitamin in the World out there for people, to help them in living healthier lives.
www.greatestvitamin.net   (478 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Greatest: Music: Duran Duran   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
the greatest band of the 8o's, this cd will keep you going on the longest journey and everyone must know all the words.....
It is easy to get carried away on the emotional high you will experiencewhen you are a child of the eighties listening to eighties music.Nonetheless, with all that out of the way, I am of course here to give youuseful info' on the album rather than go on about it's impact to thesenses.
I bought this album a few months before the group won their "Lifetime achievemement" award at the Brits, as part of a promotion at my local record store and gave it a couple of listens before it became side-tracked by other albums I had bought.
www.amazon.co.uk /Greatest-Duran/dp/B00000DG1R   (1214 words)

  
 CBC.ca - The Greatest Canadian
Over 1.2 million votes were cast in a frenzy of voting that took place over six weeks as each of 10 advocates made their case for the Top 10 nominees in special feature programs on CBC Television.
After a Final Showdown and one last chance to vote, the results were revealed on November 29, 2004 by hosts Wendy Mesley and Shaun Majumder.
And after the nominations were counted, the final round of the Greatest Canadian debate raged on for the Top Ten.
www.cbc.ca /greatest   (173 words)

  
 The Greatest Janitorial Service, Inc.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The Greatest Janitorial Service, Inc. has been serving (although not limited to) the Houston, Texas business community since 1977, providing full service building maintenance with skill and professionalism.
We provide our clients with personalized and dependable service of the highest quality and at the most competitive price.
The Greatest Janitorial Service, Inc. is prepared to work with you to establish a standard of cleanliness to ensure a sanitary and attractive environment for people who work in and visit your facility.
www.thegreatest.com   (131 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Greatest: Music: Cat Power   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
And from the first and titular tune, a mournful and gorgeous ballad with swelling strings, backing singer and shimmery guitar accompaniment that tells the tale of a boy who wants to become a great boxer, it's clear that the results of this experiment are uniformly awesome.
The deconstructed piano and gap-tooth guitar are less in evidence; in its place are blues backing musicians who neatly file down all her edges and fill in the cracks.
"The Greatest" may be about a boxer's faded hopes of glory, but the theme of disappointment is universal (to anyone that's had a life anyway).
www.amazon.com /Greatest-Cat-Power/dp/B000C0X3ZC   (2407 words)

  
 Films considered the greatest ever - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
While it is impossible to objectively determine the greatest film of all time, it is possible to discuss the films considered the greatest ever.
Many of these measures focus on American films, but those considered the greatest within their respective countries are included at the end.
Casablanca (1942) is widely cited as the greatest film of all time and was voted as such by readers of the Los Angeles Daily News in 1997.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Movies_that_have_been_considered_the_greatest_ever   (3573 words)

  
 Matador Records | Cat Power
We're not intent on gouging Cat Power fans, but we are trying to be creative and competitive in a marketplace where it is becoming increasing hard to maintain the shelf life of a title for more than a couple of months.
We really believe in Chan and are of the opinion that 'The Greatest' is one of those life affirming records that we have to get into the hands and heads of as many people as possible.
Though we don't have much news to share other than last month's major announcement about the January release of 'The Greatest', Chan did make her Instanbul debut this past week, in addition to sorting out some of the requisite promo stuff for the forthcoming album.
www.matadorrecords.com /cat_power   (3882 words)

  
 VH1.com : Shows : The Greatest - Pop Culture, Videos, Photos, Celebreality, TV Schedule
VH1's Greatest series presents definitive rankings of the best songs, artists, albums, and everything else in rock 'n' roll.
It was a time of Ronald Reagan and Rubik's Cube Miami Vice and Molly Ringwald, Jordache jeans and Joe Montana.
Hear members of rock n'roll's heavy weight division weigh in on the heaviest tunes of all time.
www.vh1.com /shows/dyn/the_greatest/series.jhtml   (290 words)

  
 greatest - OneLook Dictionary Search
adjective: greatest in importance or degree or significance or achievement (
Phrases that include greatest: greatest common divisor, greatest common factor, greatest integer function, greatest thing since sliced bread, greatest generation, more...
Words similar to greatest: biggest, great, largest, leading, preeminent, sterling, superlative, top, most, more...
www.onelook.com /?w=greatest   (185 words)

  
 World's Greatest Hobby
Model Railroader, one of the World's Greatest Hobby's partners, has a list of tips for buying your first train set on their web site.
The layout is set in Northern Ontario's lumber stands during the 1930s and features geared locomotives, small diesels, and - of course - several logging scenes.
Our most recent winners were Donna Piccinini of Islap Terrace, NY, who won an HO scale set from Walthers, and Kelly Wallpe of Oxford, IN, who won an O scale set from Walthers.
www.greatesthobby.com   (415 words)

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