In the foreground of the above image
from today's online New York Times
is the pediment of Harvard's McKean Gate.
Saturday, December 9, 2023
Donde Crece la Palma
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Thursday, December 7, 2023
“De donde crece . . .” — Song lyric*
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Wednesday, December 6, 2023
Sicilians at Annenberg Hall, or “Look Homeward, Marshall”
" One of many miniature rotund Sicilians in blue work uniforms,
employed by Harvard to sit on steps and smoke cheap cigars,
or lean for hours against the handles of rakes, was opening
the great door. Sunlight washed through the hall as if a dam
had broken, and was met from the other end, where another
maintenance man, rake in hand, opened the facing doors.
They met in the middle and disappeared through some
swinging panels which led to a staircase going down.
Marshall heard one of them say: 'Just anothah weahdo . . .' ”
— Helprin, Mark. Refiner's Fire (pp. 238-239).
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Kindle Edition.
(The first edition was from New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977.)
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“A Preternatural Skill”
By Sam Lansky
"Swift has a preternatural skill for finding the story."
— https://time.com/6342806/person-of-the-year-2023-taylor-swift/
For Letterman: "Meyer, Sam… Sam, Meyer."
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