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Mother’s Day [by Terence Winch]
Mother’s Day My mother did not live to be a hundredlike the old nuns in the Sacred Heartconvent, sheltered from life. She was fifty-five when she died. I was the babyof the family.…
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The Beat Goes on for Frank — and Steve Maglio [by David Lehman]
Twenty years have gone by since the Voice was silenced by the grim reaper. But you can still hear him — the smooth beauty of the 1940s, the roughened swinger of the Capitol Years,…
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Linda Reagan Update: Janko Joins the Reagans’ Dinner Table [by Walter Carey]
It looks like Officer Janko and Jameson (Jamie) Reagan are going to couple off and remain partners in crime prevention as well as man and wife. The writers went to a lot of trouble…
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Freud Quiz — Bonus Round [by David Lehman]
If you went “beyond the pleasure principle,” where would you be going, and with whom? (a) the Italian Renaissance with Vasari (b) the Spanish Inquisition with Loyola (c) the French Revolution with Saint-Just (d)…
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“Fifteen Poems to Avoid” [by Rebecca Endres]
15 Poems to Avoid The “very punny” The overly enthusiastic— Dickinson!— Fan! The simile that’s as overused as your favorite tee-shirt The cliché that has all the teenagers rolling their eyes moodily The hyperbolic…
