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Category Archives: Recall
Bill Millin, 88 – Piper Played on D-Day – Obituary (Obit) – NYTimes.com
Lord Lovat replied: ‘Ah, but that’s the English War Office. You and I are both Scottish, and that doesn’t apply.’
Bobby Thomson, 86, Dies – Hit ‘Shot Heard Round the World’ – Obituary (Obit) – NYTimes.com
‘Now it is done,’ Red Smith wrote in The New York Herald Tribune. ‘Now the story ends. And there is no way to tell it. The art of fiction is dead. Reality has strangled invention. Only the utterly impossible, the … Continue reading
Bernard Knox, 95, Classics Scholar, Dies – Obituary (Obit) – NYTimes.com
God knows what the world would be like if we were all brought up on the stuff they’d like us to read.
Secrets of the Little Blue Box
Ma Bell is a system I want to explore. It’s a beautiful system, you know, but Ma Bell screwed up. It’s terrible because Ma Bell is such a beautiful system, but she screwed up. I learned how she screwed up … Continue reading
Words | The New York Review of Books
My self-serving faith in articulacy was reinforced: not merely evidence of intelligence but intelligence itself. Written English as a spoken dialect is unusual enough that those who can manage complete sentences are regarded as “gifted.” Anyone who can speak ex … Continue reading