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O Numinosity O Numinous One (by Jenny Factor)
April’s 60th Anniversary issue of The Hudson Review (which I finished–phew–on Sunday!) opened with a terrific article on Poetic Recognition Scenes by Seamus Heaney. (You can read the article here.) Heaney posits that there…
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“Who is wise? He who learns from everyone. Who is strong? He who controls his passions.” (Talmud)
Christopher Hitchens on his rocking horse (112,000 views) Really hot Italian weather girl (124,000 views) Child recites the Lord's Prayer (5,500,000 views)
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Liz Taylor, John O’Hara, and the Shaken Cocktail
<<< "Tell Mrs. Liggett what you told me about shaking Martinis," said Nancy. "Oh. yes," said Farley. "You know, like everyone else, I suppose, I've been going for years on the theory that…
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Ol’ Man River
Show Boat was sublime last evening. "Show me dat stream called de river Jordan / Dat’s de ol’ stream dat I long to cross." When the male chorus sings these lines, you feel that…
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Last Night When We Were Young
Today is David’s birthday so last night we had two on the aisle at Carnegie Hall for a one-time concert performance of Show Boat, Jerome Kern’s groundbreaking 1927 musical about "life on the Mississippi." …
