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Wednesday, August 26, 2026
Richard Wright On The Black Experience In America
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President Donald J. Trump and his MAGA (Make America Great Again) right wing followers should seriously ponder the following words whenever ...
Thursday, August 20, 2026
Broadcast Journalist Edward R. Murrow On Heretics
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"I've always been on the side of the heretics against those who burned them, because the heretics so often proved to be right. Dead...
Wednesday, August 12, 2026
A Favorite Movie Line
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One of my favorite movie lines is from The Naked City (1948): Ted de Corsia as the killer Willy Garzah flees the NYPD by climbing up the W...
Tuesday, July 14, 2026
The AUDELCO Theater Awards (1980)
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The headline on the New York Post of November 17 [1980] forewarned readers that it would "SNOW!" that night. And the snow came. S...
Thursday, July 9, 2026
A Brief Personal Quiz
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The following quiz was posted on Facebook by a woman named MikenVal Collins, who linked it to my cousin Sharon's page as an alternative ...
Thursday, June 25, 2026
A Manhattan Bookstore Closes
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More than a year ago, Shakespeare & Company's store, on Broadway near 105th Street on Manhattan's Upper West Side, was closed a ...
Thursday, June 11, 2026
We Need An Interurban Trolley System
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There's a very memorable scene in the 1975 historical novel Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow (1931-2015), in which a character, who I think was...
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