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  • The Luck of Sid Luckman [by David Lehman]

    November 21, 2019

    Born November 21, 1916, Sid Luckman, the greatest Jewish quarterback of all time, graduated from the Brooklyn playgrounds, Erasmus Hall High School, and Columbia. With Sid at the helm, the Chicago Bears, "monsters of…

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  • COMING OF AGE IN A BRAVE NEW WORLD [by Peter Fortunato]

    November 21, 2019

    One thing I’ve repeated to my students over the years is that if you want to become a writer or an artist, you need to act on that desire and then continue despite the…

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  • Witness a unique début with Ruth Childs’ “fantasia” [by Tracy Danison]

    November 21, 2019

    “fantasia”, Ruth Childs©Marie Magnin When my boy was very little we would be walking along and he would suddenly stop dead, quivering like a pointer, point at this or that, cry “Behold”. Where he…

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  • Voices of Columbia 1967 (#2) [by Mitch Sisskind]

    November 20, 2019

    Ellen Erlanger, Barnard student Barnard is across Broadway fromColumbia which is not very far butFar enough to be different from whatBarnard would be like if there wereOne unified campus for both sexes. For example,…

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  • I FELT FREE TO TAKE LIBERTIES WITH THE NOVEL [by Peter Fortunato]

    November 20, 2019

    I wrote Carnevale hoping my language would primarily evoke two periods of American history: the first is the 1960s, when so much seemed possible; its counterpoint and contrast is the Great Recession of 2008,…

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  • Voices of Columbia 1967, #1 (by Mitch Sisskind)

    November 19, 2019

                Jared Korsauer, Student Every Sunday night a group of usGet together – a leftist lawyer,CU Students, a tough black guyWho got radicalized in the air force,Some chicks, a…

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