Web Dreamtime SiteSearch Google  Saturday, August 01, 2009  This
TIME It Is For Reference  Even Dreamtime isn't immune from using
the occasional obligatory headline.  Our internet pal and
correspondent Scott Warmuth was the man who first broke the news
that several lines in the songs of Modern Times were based -
sometimes borrowed from - the poet laureate of the Confederacy,
Henry Timrod. Scott went on to discover fragments from Ovid,
Chaucer and James Joyce in the lyrics of the Together Through
Life songs, and has recently looked into Chronicles to see what
he could find.  Scott noticed that a phrase in Chronicles
referring to Hanoi as the, "brothel-studded Paris of the orient"
appeared in quotation marks and wondered where it had been
sourced. A little digging uncovered the Friday, March 31, 1961
edition of TIME magazine:  Chronicles, page 87: "They had turned
Hanoi, the capital city, into the 'brothel-studded Paris of the
orient.'...The press reported Hanoi was grubby and cheerless,
that the people dressed