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Poem for Mitch Sisskind [by David Lehman]
On Veterans' Day let us remember the fallen, and honor them.It used to be Armistice Day.Now it is a three-day weekend.As King David would have said: How the mighty have fallen.But some things don't…
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On Veterans Day [by Stacey Lehman]
My dad landed on Omaha beach, not as part of the first wave, thank god, or I probably wouldn’t be here, but later, to clean up. He went on to fight in the Battle…
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A Poem for Veterans Day
President Dwight D. Eisenhower signing HR7786 June 1, 1954, changing Armistice Day to Veterans Day. Reconciliation Word over all, beautiful as the sky!Beautiful that war, and all its deeds of carnage, must in…
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Met Percent: Week Ten [by Alec Bernstein]
Sonrientes Smiling Figure (Sonrientes), 7th-8th c. Remojadas, gallery 358. Not much is known about this happy figure. There are mixed cues: male and female, old and young, spirit and human, dwarf and child. It’s…
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“The Big Clock” — Kenneth Fearing’s novel, John Farrow’s film [by David Lehman]
On TCM on a recent Sunday at midnight and again at 10 AM, Eddie Muller of Noir Alley showed The Big Clock (1948), a great movie adapted from the fearless Fearing novel centered on a…
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Kaia and Krista (by Mitch Sisskind)
I sold a Miro painting for a rich guy That was basically a big number 68 And oddly enough it sold for about 68,000 so I got a nice finder’s fee But it would…
