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D-Day, June 6, 1944: “I have full confidence in your courage, devotion to duty and skill in battle.”
Order of the Day, June 6, 1944 Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force! You are about to embark on the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The…
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Bach [by Lewis Saul]
Today, I'm here to talk about my favorite Bach ensemble — The Netherlands Bach Society and their "All of Bach" project — particularly Bach's long-form works. The St. Matthew Passion (2:44:31) is at the…
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“The Laughing Heart” [by Charles Bukowski]
The Laughing Heart by Charles Bukowski your life is your lifedon’t let it be clubbed into dank submission.be on the watch.there are ways out.there is light somewhere.it may not be much light butit beats…
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Gregory Pardlo: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
______________________________________________________ Raisin I dragged my twelve-year-old cousin to see the Broadway production of A Raisin in the Sun because the…
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“Do I Have Opinions?” [by Molly Arden]
Yes! Yes to "Blue Poles"!Yes to the pool table's six holes! I believe in Romeo, as Juliet saidwhen she lay in the coffin pretending to be dead. That Tonto is no good, said the…
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In Praise of Idleness” [by Paul Violi]
For the second time this weekI've watched snow fall at sunrise,dawn arrive on a breeze(the way I think it always does).I don't know which, time or the weather,woke me, charmed me out of a…
