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Tom Mandel: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Between Past and Future I. (In the academy: a conversation between master and student) Rabbi, when will the Messiah come? Why do you ask me? Go ask him. But Rabbi,…
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Maxine Sullivan welcomes the new year
Loch Lomond ("you take the high road, and I'll take the low road, and I'll be in Scotland afore ye") A Hundred Years from Today ("so laugh and sing, / make love the king,…
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“New Year’s Day” [by Billy Collins]
New Year’s Day Everyone has two birthdaysaccording to the English essayist Charles Lamb,the day you were born and New Year’s Day— a droll observation to mull overas I wait for the tea water to…
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Titian’s “Venus of Urbino” on New Year’s Eve [by David Lehman]
New Year’s Eve Champagne and a ribeye, that’s the ticket,Beethoven’s string quartet in C# minor,and good riddance to the plague year.The mind can provide, provide,and theories will continue to proposethemselves in politically incorrect seminarsin…
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“More Mush from the Wimp”
6) The least read (most ignored) “important” poet in English is (a) Dryden (b) Spenser (c) Pope John Paul II (d) John Lennon in his “Rubber Soul” period (e) Sara Teasdale (7) Who…
