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“Gentleman’s Agreement” (1947): The Trailer
Highbrows have long condescended to this Academy Award-winning movie. They are wrong. Gregory Peck is great; do you remember the foul-mouthed comedian in "Mad Men" who tells Don Draper "I loved you in Gentleman's…
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Quote of the Day: Prima Ballerina Tanaquil “Tanny” Let Clercq
“Souffles fall and so do dancers, and both survive: The main thing is to forget it.” from The Ballet Cook Book by Tanaquil “Tanny” Le Clercq — sdl
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The Philosopher in the Brown Shirt [Adam Kirsch on Heidegger]
<<< Nazis burn books; philosophers write them. But Heidegger did both. — Adam Kirsch >>> Excellent piece by Adam Kirsch (in Tablet) on Heidegger's "metaphysical" anti-Semitism and on attempts to reconcile what is valuable…
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“But Not For Me” (Happy birthday to you, Ira Gershwin)
One of Ira Gershwin's greatest lyrics: "They're writing songs of love, / But not for me. . ." "With love to lead the way, / I've found more clouds of gray / than…
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“Coda” [by Bill Wadsworth]
Coda You waited at the station entrance.I was late. My hair had turned graybut there you were, all the snow gone,all the leaves blown, the leopard sunhaving leapt across a life never lived. My…
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“Every Atom”: Brian Clements’ Whitman Project — 200 Days in Honor of 200 Years
A tip of the fedora to Brian Clements, who, in conjunction with North American Review, initiated "Every Atom" on Walt Whitman's birthday, May 31. On that day and for two hundred days after, poets…
