Songwriter Tom Glazer, 88, died Friday, February 21, 2003. From his New York Times obituary: "Tom Glazer occasionally speculated about meeting St. Peter at the Pearly Gates and being asked what he accomplished in music." Glazer: From the official Department of Defense
Title Composer America the Beautiful W: Katherine Lee Baker, The Battle Hymn W: Julia Ward Howe, The Marine's Hymn W: Anonymous, My Country 'Tis of Thee W: Samuel Francis Smith Old Soldiers Never Die Tom Glazer Sound Off Willie Lee Duckworth Stars and Stripes Forever John Philip Sousa Washington Post March John Philip Sousa West Point Suite Darius Milhand You're a Grand Old Flag George M. Cohan
Korean War Commemoration website:
M: Samuel A. Ward
of the Republic
M: Traditional
M: Jacques Offenbach
M: Traditional
Also from the New York Times:
"In 1957 he composed songs and background music for 'A Face in the Crowd,' a film directed by Elia Kazan."
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"His brother, who spelled his name Sidney Glazier, died in December. He produced the 1968 movie version of 'The Producers.'"
St. Peter:
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Indeed, the translations of the Gita by S. Radhakrishnan, A. C. Bhaktivedanta, Nataraja Guru and Eliot Deutsch say precisely that. One exception to this, however, is the 1929 translation by Arthur Ryder. And, indeed, in a 1933 letter to his brother, Robert Oppenheimer does mention that he has "been reading the Bhagavad Gita with Ryder and two other Sanskritists." The misinterpretation, therefore, may not have been the fault of Oppenheimer or Jungk. Nevertheless, the verse does not have anything to do with an apocalyptic or catastrophic destruction, as most people have interpreted it in connection with nuclear weapons. When kAla is understood as time, the meaning is drastically changed to being a reminder of our mortality and finite lifetimes as also the lifetimes of everything else in this world (including plutonium and uranium, despite their long, long, half-lives!). It then becomes more akin to western notions of the "slow march of time" and thus having little to do with the immense destruction caused by a nuclear explosion. While the very first images that arose in the father of the atomic bomb are a somewhat wrong application of Hindu mythology, his recollection of the Bhagavad Gita may have been quite pertinent. As is well known, the Bhagavad Gita was supposedly intended to persuade Arjuna to participate in the Kurukshetra battle that resulted in the killing of thousands. Thus, Oppenheimer may well have been trying to rationalize his involvement in the development of a terrible weapon. 
