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The Taut Comment String (to “What Trumps Vain Boasts”) [from the Wall Street Journal]
On June 23, 2017, the Wall Street Journal published David Lehman's essay "What Trumps Vain Boasts: Shelley’s ‘Ozymandias’ serves as a reminder that time mocks us all." The essay, part of the WSJ's "Masterpiece"…
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Frank O’Hara: “A Step Away from Them”
It's my lunch hour, so I go forfor a walk among the hum-coloredcabs. First, down the sidewalkwhere laborers feed their dirtyglistening torsos sandwichesand Coca-Cola, with yellow helmetson. They protect them from fallingbricks, I guess.…
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“Fantaisie” by Gerard de Nerval [translated by Robert Launay]
by Gérard de Nerval Il est un air pour qui je donnerais Tout Rossini, tout Mozart et tout Weber, Un air très vieux, languissant et funèbre, Qui pour moi seul a des charmes secrets.…
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Happy Birthday, Frank Loesser, with love from Nathan Detroit
Bob Fosse said Guys and Dolls (1950) was "the greatest Broadway musical of all time." Frank Loesser (on left) wrote the words and the music. A rare double-threat, he did the same for the…
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“Exquisite Politics” [by Denise Duhamel and Maureen Seaton]
The perfect voter has a smile but no eyes,maybe not even a nose or hair on his or her toes,maybe not even a single sperm cell, ovum, little paramecium.Politics is a slug copulating in…
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How to Start Tomorrow (Today), with Bobby Darin [by David Lehman]
I recommend you start tomorrowtodaywith Bobby Darinand MacheathLouie MillerJenny DiverLotte Lenyaand Lucy Brownin concertLet them welcome youinto their next musical dayin 1970
