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Frost and “the nothing that is” [by David Lehman]
I have long discerned connections between "The Snow Man" and the work of Robert Frost [pictured left receiving a medal of honor from President John F. Kennedy in 1962], an association that Frost's surname…
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PFC Hyman Ruby Horowitz
My dad, who served honorably in the US Army during WWII. — Stacey Lehman
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Veteran’s Day (a poem for Mitch Sisskind) [by David Lehman]
On Veterans' Day let us remember the fallen, and honor them.It used to be Armistice Day.Now it is a three-day weekend, if that.As King David would have said: How the mighty have fallen. But…
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Leonard Bernstein conducting Brahms’s “Academic Festival Overture.
Leonard Bernstein conducting Brahms's "Academic Festival Overture." He is one of the instruments — just watch him. Like a method actor, in a way. He dances with the baton. And the music ends with…
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Ahmos Zu-Bolton: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
________________________________________________________________________________________ Ravis My brother turns his life insideout, from a jail in Leesville, from a half-way house in Lake Charles, from a…
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This Day in History: November 8 [by David Lehman]
Today in 1957 Pan Am flight 7 went downin the Pacific Ocean Three years later Kennedy was elected presidentThe Viet Cong ambushed the 173rd Airbornein Operation Hump,1965, which should have madeMcNamara rethink the whole thingIn…
