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1. What do you think of Carter's decision to pardon Nixon? Is this a power that should be awarded to the president?

2. Did the emergence of post-modernism coincide with the decline of religious practices? Did it arise because people of the 1960's were left feeling unfulfilled spiritually and so sought other means to grasp onto any glimmer of truth?

3. "We write songs; we know what we mean by them. But in a week someone else says something about it, says that it means that as well, and you can't deny it. Things take on millions of meanings. I don't understand it."

-Paul McCartney interview, ca. 1967-68

Does only pop music fit this code of open interpretation? Is this an innate characteristic of pop that allows it to appeal to the masses? Or can other types of music fit this description as well, such as Folk, if the lyrics and musical signifiers are more abstract?