Thursday, December 7, 2023
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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For His Nibs . . .
Continues . . .
For Her Nibs, see last night's post "This, This!"
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“Sparkling, Clear, and Lovely” — Song Lyrics
See as well a related Log24 search.
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“This, This!” *
Monday, July 3, 2023
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Also on July 3, 2023 —
* See Parul Sehgal, "What We Learn from the Lives of Critics."
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Tuesday, December 5, 2023
The Annenberg Knell
From a Log24 search for the above phrase . . .
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"For many of us, the geometry course sounded the death knell — "Shape and Space in Geometry" © 1997-2003 Annenberg/CPB. All rights reserved. |
See also Annenberg Hall.
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