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“Mairzy Doats” (a lyric & a challenge)
Back in 1989, when Allan Bloom's indictment of what has come to be called "Woke" was current ("The Closing of the American Mind"), Bloom and a professor named Gerald Graff appeared on an afternoon…
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Who painted it, and why does it surprise you?
Clues: 1) "Lady with Striped Dress"2) National Gallery3) On paper, 1933/34 4) Untitled / 1969-70
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WEDNESDAYS WITH DENISE: January 3, 2024
The first poetry book Iām recommending in 2024 is Pittsburghese by Robert Gibb, published by Michigan State University Press/Wheelbarrow Books on January 1. Pittsburghese is part elegy for the no-longer steel mills and part…
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The New York School Diaspora (Part Sixty-Six): Jerome Sala [by Angela Ball]
A Man and a Woman The woman in greenhates the man in the mistbut the woman insidethe man from hell's edgeloves a woman in flames. The Man from U.N.C.L.E.is like a woman who is…
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Deconstruction as a political strategy
Deconstruction relies on the flipping of binaries. "Losing is winning. Crime is justice. Rape is love. Death is life." No wonder the new Jacobins hate Orwell. from Lee Smith, "The Global Empire of Palestine,"…
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Happy new year with Doris Day & Maxine Sullivan and “Loch Lomond”
"A Hundred Years from Today" "Loch Lomond"
