{"id":87558,"date":"2022-03-03T14:36:58","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T14:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/?p=87558"},"modified":"2022-03-03T14:36:58","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T14:36:58","slug":"the-story-behind-the-sound-of-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/the-story-behind-the-sound-of-silence\/","title":{"rendered":"The Story behind the Sound of Silence"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #0000ff;\"><b>The Story behind the Sound of Silence<\/b><\/span><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JVdeyypRVdc\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">humane act \u00a0of Today I read a very beautiful story, which I decided to share. It is the story of a poor boy, an American of a Jewish family, from Buffalo, who wins a scholarship at Columbia University.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">There, he befriends a boy who turned out to be a great friend, and his roommate. But in his freshman year of college, watching a baseball game, all of a sudden, out of nowhere, he went blind.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">The doctor said it was conjunctivitis and it would go away. It didn&#8217;t &#8230; it was a cataract that had damaged his optic nerves. The boy became blind, went into depression, dropped out of school and returned to his homeland.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">This friend, his roommate, went there and convinced him to return to the University. The friend said to him: &#8211; the darkness will accompany you and I will be your light. The friend started to help him in everything. He read him the tests, the books, everything.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">This blind guy ended up graduating with a law degree, then got a master&#8217;s degree from Harvard and a PhD from Oxford. He became a well-recognized attorney and a Counselor in the White House. He was advisor to American presidents such as Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">This beautiful story of overcoming adversity and showing the true value of friendship is the life of Sandy Greenberg.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">But going back in time, in 1964, the roommate who helped him graduate, Arthur Ira Garfunkel (of the duo Simon &amp; Garfunkel) borrowed $400 from Sandy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">He needed the money to release a record. Sandy lent him the money. The record was released in 1964, and became one of the most popular songs.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">It was the song that the roommate made in honor of his friend Sandy Greenberg, a song that everyone knows, but like me, no one knew the story behind the lyrics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">*The Sound of Silence*<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">(Note: this was sent to eLanka by a member. 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