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Hans Josephsohn, sculptor of genius, artistic heritage, Solomon Grundy and Emily Dickinson [By Tracy Danison]
Untitled, undated, Hans Josephsohn. Photo © Musée de l’art moderne de Paris Sick of your compatriots after months of gazing anxiously into their inscrutable faces? Thinking of Paris as a place where you might…
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Who wrote “Laura”?
The lyrics were written (after the movie was released) by Johnny mercer, but the comoser was David Raksin, who also wrote the music for The Bad and the Beautiful. Dick Haymes does justice to…
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“For the Slip’N Slide” by George Bilgere (by Nin Andrews)
I keep trying to figure out how we arrived here, and what country and planet we are now living in/on. When did this all begin? I grew up in the 60's in the midst…
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From Pity to Wisdom to Coercion [by Lionel Trilling]
<<< Some paradox of our natures leads us, when once we have made our fellow men the objects of our enlightened interest, to go on to make them the object of our pity, then…
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“To the Bobbydazzlers” by John Forbes [Introduced by Thomas Moody]
Tough day to be thinking about poetry, let alone Australian poetry. Luckily, John Forbes has a poem for just about every occasion. To the Bobbydazzlers American poets!you have savedAmerica fromits reputationif not…
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Remembering James Liddy [by Terence Winch]
Today, on the 16th anniversary of his death, I am thinking of my dear friend James Liddy. He was born and raised in Ireland (though his mother was born in New York), but spent…
