Alfred EISENSTAEDT

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V for Victory

WINSTON CHURCHILL

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill flashes his signature “V for Victory” sign, by Alfred Eisenstaedt, 1951.

 

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer. You have only to persevere to save yourselves, and to save all those who rely upon you. You have only to go right on, and at the end of the road, be it short or long, victory and honor will be found.

 

Wiston Churchill

 

The Kiss

La suboficial Marissa Gaeta, a l’esquerra, besa la seva nòvia, la també suboficial Citlalic Snell, en arribar a la base naval a Virginia Beach (21/12/2011). Fotografia: Brian J. Clark.


The Times They Are a-Changin’ 
Come gather ‘round people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You’ll be drenched to the bone.
If your time to you
Is worth savin’
Then you better start swimmin’
Or you’ll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin’.

Come writers and critics
Who prophesize with your pen
And keep your eyes wide
The chance won’t come again
And don’t speak too soon
For the wheel’s still in spin
And there’s no tellin’ who
That it’s namin’.
For the loser now
Will be later to win
For the times they are a-changin’.

Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don’t stand in the doorway
Don’t block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
There’s a battle outside ragin’.
It’ll soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin’.

Come mothers and fathers
Throughout the land
And don’t criticize
What you can’t understand
Your sons and your daughters
Are beyond your command
Your old road is
Rapidly agin’.
Please get out of the new one
If you can’t lend your hand
For the times they are a-changin’.

The line it is drawn
The curse it is cast
The slow one now
Will later be fast
As the present now
Will later be past
The order is
Rapidly fadin’.
And the first one now
Will later be last
For the times they are a-changin’.

Bob Dylan, The Times They Are a-Changin’ (1964).

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La famosa fotografia V-J Day in Times Square, d’Alfred Eisenstaedt (1898-1995), publicada a Life el 1945. La foto va ser presa a Times Square de Nova York.