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  • The Man He Killed [by Thomas Hardy]

    July 18, 2025

    The Man He Killed   "Had he and I but met             By some old ancient inn, We should have sat us down to wet             Right many a nipperkin!               "But ranged as infantry,             And…

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  • Emily Fragos, Louise Glück, and “The Night Nurse” [Terence Winch]

    July 18, 2025

    Last month, June of 2025, I found myself having to undergo two separate cardiac treatments at DC’s Washington Hospital Center, each visit spanning two days. Like most people, I hate being a hospital patient.…

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  • Re: Philippe Nuss, medical doctor, psychiatrist and philosopher of movement, Jean-Christophe Boclé, choreographer [By Tracy Danison]

    July 18, 2025

    Cognition, functionality, autonomy/flow, happening, sensibility/positioning, sound, movement. Dance performers Aure Barbier and Charles Noyerie rehearse a phrase from Nijinsky’s Après-midi d’un Faun as noted in Labanonotation by dance analyst, the late Ann Hutchinson Guest. Music…

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  • “A Fox and a Chicken” [by Andrea Cohen]

    July 17, 2025

    A Fox and a Chicken Don’t forget, there’s alsoa sack of corn and a rowboatin the riddle. There’s a manwhose task it is to row the boat,and rowing, to figure out howto get the chicken…

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  • from “The White Man Who Pretended to Be Black to Get Published” [by River Page]

    July 16, 2025

    from The Free Press, July 16, 2025, this excerpt fromThe White Man Who Pretended to Be Black to Get Published by River Page <<<Several years ago, the man calling himself “Jasper Ceylon” was trying to…

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  • “Signs of the Times”: A hit-job in December 1991

    July 16, 2025

    <<<“Oh, happy day”  It is sometimes claimed by liberals and leftists in the academy that recent attacks upon the way the teaching of the humanities has been politically corrupted in our universities either are…

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