Donald Clarke writes: >but few of us can avoid knowing what the pop stars look like because the papers and magazines are full of them. I have to confess that I have long managed to avoid knowing what almost every pop star looks like, by the simple expedient of avoiding popular magazines. True, I cannot avoid glancing at their covers at the supermarket checkout stand, but this has taught me to recognize only Jennifer Aniston and Angelina Jolie. >At the same time that some Americans believe that playing Mozart >at babies makes them smarter, it will not occur to them that playing >garbage at everybody all the time makes them stupider. I think here Donald may have uncovered the secret of US political life. Cheers////JON [log in to unmask] *********************************************** The CLASSICAL mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's HDMail High Deliverability Mailer for reliable, lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html