A New Tomorrow

There will be a new tomorrow
There will be a brighter day
There will be a new tomorrow
Love will find a way

These lines are from a song the English pop singer, Jackie DeShannon, was singing over the airwaves several years ago. Actually, it was part of a trend in popular music in which young people began to express real concern for this new tomorrow, this new chance, this new opportunity. “I still believe in tomorrow/though my life is a mess today,” they sang in another song. This concern for tomorrow was expressed also in a Broadway Play of the time. In it, a young man who had dropped out of school and been estranged from his parents was now hooked on drugs. Out of the depths of what he sees as a hopeless situation he cries out, “How I wish life was like a notebook so you could tear out the part where you’ve made all the mistakes and…