Besides scores of ballads and love songs, he has written overtly political songs, such as "Amber Waves of Grain," "Jesus, Take a Hold," "1929," and "The Fightin' Side of Me" ("If you don't love it, leave it. Let this song that I'm singin' be a warning.
"We weren't trying to write an overtly political musical about gays in the military, because we came to see that 'Yank!' becomes more subversive the more you hew to the old classic Rodgers and Hammerstein models of love stories — just between two men — than having our characters up on soapboxes," Joe Zellnik said.
And in the 1980's, starting with "One for the Road," which deals with the process of interrogation, Pinter began to write more overtly political plays: pungent, imagistic works often dealing with cruelty, torture, abuse of human rights or what Pinter sees as the double standards of the Western democracies.
They admitted that Francis's writing "overtly indulges various Southern nostalgias", but insisted that his "deservedly criticised statements on race" could be separated from the core of his analysis.
Narnia, with its last-act resurrection (Aslan was Christ - did you get that?), suggested otherwise, but then CS Lewis was writing an overtly Christian work.
Not until his last stage work, "Suite in Three Keys," had Coward, as Day writes, "dealt overtly with the subject of homosexuality.
Posts such as "Exclusive interview with Me," and "My Withdrawal from Wimbledon" (after losing in the second round) are written with overtly proper English though purposely littered with incorrect plurals.
Nor has anyone attempted to deny that Verdi himself was, at times at least, a decided patriot, passionately in support of the 1848 revolutions; in the wake of 1848 he even wrote an overtly patriotic opera that marked the establishment of the Roman republic of 1849 (this was La battaglia di Legnano).
The Republican party, as Wolin writes, now overtly operates for the benefit of powerful economic interests while paying lip service to patriotism, Christian values, national security and the fight against "big government".
