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Squibs 365-372 [by Alan Ziegler]
365: Late 1950s, Lassie barks for help through the darkness. The T.V. picture has gone kaput. My father says “I’ll teach you to fix it” and removes the back to reveal a landscape of…
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“The bad guy isn’t supposed to win”: The Late Nick Tosches’ Take on Sonny Liston [by David Lehman]
Legend has it that Sinatra was prepared to bet a bundle on Sonny Liston in the ballyhooed bout against Cassius Clay in Miami. "Save your money, Frank," he was told. The fix was in.…
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Pelosi Quotes Longfellow [by Mitch Sisskind]
Yesterday, introducing the impeachment managers,Nancy Pelosi invoked Longfellow. It was the first time I've heard poetry spoken by a politician since Bill Clinton in the 1980's quoted Emerson'sbaleful line about the future, "When our sons have…
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“Columbia College 1967, #24” [by Mitch Sisskind]
Columbia College 1967, #24Ellen Erlanger, Barnard Student I’m taking a class called Women in the Modern Novel.Everyone knows that the teacher, Professor Sims,Is not well so it’s kind of an emotional experienceTwice a week…
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“William Holden, Model Prisoner” [by David Lehman]
from The American Scholar <<<William Holden, arguably the model for American men of his era, plays a prisoner of war in two major motion pictures. The Germans hold him and other American airmen captive…
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Met Percent: Week Fourteen [by Alec Bernstein]
Beauty-Writing (Callos-Graphia) “Handwriting is jewelry fashioned by the hand from the pure gold of the intellect.” – treatise on the penmanship of Abu Hayyan al-Tawhidi, 9th century. The diacritical marks indicate vowels (the alphabet…
