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Unanswered Prayers: Remembering 22 November 1963 [Terence Winch]
JFK in Ireland Like many people my age, I have never shaken off the horrible shock of JFK’s murder fifty years ago. His abrupt removal from American life—in so bloody and surreal a fashion—was…
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Famous Last Lines [by David Lehman]
Nearly all classic movies end on a note of exceptional pathos, irony, or humor. Take “there’s no place like home,” “tomorrow is another day,” and “nobody’s perfect,” which perfectly match the movies they conclude: The…
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Caroline Seebohm Reminisces about Alison Lurie
Caroline Seebohm on the Late Alison Lurie Interior Decorating. Alison Lurie [pictured left] was very interested in English people, so when she met me on my arrival in Ithaca in the 1980s, she was…
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Bert Cooper of “Mad Men” believes in you!
Robert Morse in action. The song is from How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying. Words and music by Frank Loesser, and Morse is doing it here, solo, at an awards ceremony.
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“My November Guest’ [by Robert Frost]
My November Guest My Sorrow, when she's here with me, Thinks these dark days of autumn rainAre beautiful as days can be;She loves the bare, the withered tree; She walked the…
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No! [by Thomas Hood, 1799-1845]
No sun—no moon! No morn—no noon—No dawn— No sky—no earthly view— No distance looking blue—No road—no street—no “t’other side the way”— …
