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Bookends is the fourth studio album by American music duo Simon & Garfunkel. Produced by Paul Simon, Roy Halee and Art Garfunkel, the album was released on April 3, 1968 in the United States by Columbia Records. The duo had risen to fame two years prior with hit albums such as Sounds of Silence and Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme, radio singles, and touring colleges. In 1967, Simon was approached by director Mike Nichols to write songs for his next film, The Graduate. Released several weeks prior to Bookends, the soundtrack album propelled the band further into stardom.
Bookends, in contrast to the soundtrack album, follows a unified concept, exploring a life journey from childhood to old age. Side one of the album marks successive stages in life, the theme serving as literal bookends to the life cycle. Side two largely consists of unused material for The Graduate soundtrack. Simon's lyrics largely revolve around youth, disillusionment, relationships, old age, and mortality. Much of the material was crafted alongside producer John Simon, who joined the recording process when Paul Simon suffered from writer's block. As a result, the album was recorded gradually over the period of a year, with production speeding up around the later months of 1967.
Initial sales for Bookends were substantial in the US, and the album produced the number one hit single, " Mrs. Robinson". The album was mainly a hit in the duo's native country as well as the United Kingdom, where in both countries it peaked at number one. Bookends was considered a breakthrough for the group, placing them on the same level as artists such as The Beatles, Bob Dylan and The Rolling Stones at the forefront of the cultural movement in the 1960s. The album has continued to receive critical acclaim in recent years as one of the duo's finest efforts.
Bookends is a commercial reference management software package for Mac OS X that is used to manage bibliographies and references when writing essays and articles. Its target market is students, academics and professionals. It works with several word processors, including Microsoft Word, Apple Pages, Mellel, Nisus Writer Express, OpenOffice.org Writer and others. Bookends is made by Sonny Software and maintained by its owner and developer Jon Ashwell. The current version is 12.
Bookends is able to carry out Internet searches in a number of websites such as Pubmed and Google Scholar in order to retrieve references and corresponding PDF files or web pages, or to obtain references for articles in PDF format which were already retrieved. These search capabilities are also present in Reference Miner, a freeware scaled-down version of Bookends which lacks bibliographic management features.
BookEnds is a non-profit organization based in Southern California that helps children collect books and donate them to other children in areas of low literacy. It was founded in 1998 by the mother-and-son team of Robin and Brandon Keefe in Agoura Hills. Brandon, then eight years old and in the third grade, led his school class in a book drive to build a library at a local home for abused children.
BookEnds became a non-profit organization in 2002, and Robin Keefe serves as its president. It "recycles children's books" through student-led book drives and donates them to schools and youth organizations that need them. In addition to its regular book drives, it holds an annual Scrabble challenge. The organization claims to have donated more than 2 million books to 500,000 children.
BookEnds received Freeman, Freeman & Smiley Foundation Visions in Philanthropy Award in 2000, and the President's Volunteer Service Award from President George Bush in 2004. Brandon and BookEnds were featured in the 2006 book Passionaries.
"Bookends", also known as "Bookends Theme", is a song by American music duo Simon & Garfunkel from their fourth studio album, Bookends (1968). It appears twice on the track listing, as the first and last song on side one of the original vinyl LP.
Usage examples of "bookends".
Despite the differences in their backgrounds and physical appearance, as boys they had been like bookends, always together.
Between brass bookends, each a miniature bust of Shakespeare, are the novels she collects at yard sales.
At her desk beneath the Shakespeare bookends, Tessie wrote back faithfully, if not entirely truthfully.
Now that they had made a complete circuit they saw that the buildings were like bookends on a broad shelfno booksand the shelf surrounded by greenery.
Or were you of a mind to convert them all to floor lamps and bookends, huh?
Betsy had boarded the train wearing her plain and everyday striped cotton boxer shorts, her T-shirt with the sunflowers stenciled on the front and back, her Roman espadrilles laced up to her knees, and a knapsack slung over her back, its canvas sides strained by her Dante and Beatrice bookends, her alabaster horse, and her treasure box, plus a stone she had grubbed from the foundation landscaping as her mother was hustling her out to the taxi waiting at the curb in front of their house.