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We Make Huge Mistakes In Perception [by Jennifer Michael Hecht]
Dear Bleaders, Can we talk a little more about the gym? First let me remind you of the weirdness of perception and the human capacity to be deceived. Only about twenty-five years ago many adult…
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“Eating Lunch with Nick Courtright” [by Peter Ferry]
I meet Nick Courtright for lunch at the Monument Café in Georgetown, Texas. I see the floor manager nod our way and say something to the waiter. I imagine that it is, “See the…
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“Adults Don’t Tell Other Adults What To Do” [by Jordan Davis]
Adults don't tell other adults what to do.This proposition strikes me as so importantI ought to preach it in the subway corridor — Hello, hear the good news and the thank you —Adults don't…
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FROM BLACK TO GREEN and back to poetry. [by E. Ethelbert Miller]
So there we were (yesterday ) sitting in the historical Thurgood Marshall Center (located at 1816 12th Street, NW). I thought I heard Langston Hughes walking around outside the room. The Marshall Center is…
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“We was wit’ you, at Rigoletto’s!” (by Laura Orem)
Today marks the anniversary of the first ever performance of Guiseppe Verdi's Rigoletto, which premiered in Venice in 1851. By all accounts, it was an instant smash, and the next morning, Venetians were heard…
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Eric Ambler on the Human Face by Jim Cummins
This paragraph leads off Chapter 14 of Eric Ambler's A Coffin for Dimitrios (Knopf, 1939; published in England under the title The Mask of Dimitrios): A man's features, the bone structure and the tissue…
