Klarinet Archive - Posting 000009.txt from 1999/11

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] playing the Clarinet from behind the student
Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1999 03:04:48 -0500

I think Hugh Grant was the "movie star". I've not heard of any of the
others - we have our very own strange law-related happenings over here.
Probably we'll soon
be going back to the Anglo-Saxon system, with wergild, etc.
Roger S.

On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, David Glenn wrote:

> Date: Mon, 01 Nov 1999 17:57:37 +0100
> From: David Glenn <notestaff@-----.de>
> Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: [kl] playing the Clarinet from behind the student
>
> This thread has been a bit like watching a horror movie. (tho' actually, I don't
> watch horror movies.) Having lived in Europe for over half my life after growing
> up in the US, I sometimes think I have an insight into both worlds but, more and
> more, I feel alienated to America.
>
> The daily paper doesn't help. Which stories about America have been in the local
> paper recently? The Swiss/Amer. 10-yr.old in Colorado who either helped his
> little sister go wee-wee in the yard - or raped her. He was arrested in the
> night and taken off to the cell bound on hands and feet. Swiss authorities
> complained about exagerated harschness - to no avail. Or the German brothers
> sentenced to death for murder. There is no death sentence in the European Union
> - what if new evidence turned up? Or the Japanese exchange student who got shot
> because he didn't understand the word "freeze". Or the movie star (forgot which
> one - wasn't he English?) who was arrested for picking up a prostitute on the
> streets of LA.
>
> Of couse Europe also has its problems (i.e. right wing extremists, unemployment,
> etc.) but the atmosphere is different. I feel more free here. (Yes, I do
> sometimes touch my pupils or have them touch me for breathing. No, I don't stand
> behind my pupils to finger their clarinets.) Europe is not free from incest and
> child molestation but I hope that this deceitful attitude doesn't come over here
> from the States like other trends have.
>
> David
>
>
>
>
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