Cacophony

‘WHIRL is king, having over-thrown Zeus,” Aristophanes wrote of fifth century Athens. Just as surely, Dinos is king of the twentieth century campus; and merry old soul that he is, Dinos rejoices in his court musicians: the juke box, the hi-fi, the blaring TV.

I refer to the domination of the typical campus in this land by ghastly “music” of the kind which, far from soothing the savage breast, obliterates conversation, reason, and even genuine emotion.