Think April is “the cruelest month?” E.E. Cummings will cure your despair.
wholly to be a fool
while Spring is in the world
Read MoreThink April is “the cruelest month?” E.E. Cummings will cure your despair.
wholly to be a fool
while Spring is in the world
Read MoreMa Rainey sang, lived, and became the blues. But there was more to her than that “Slow, Drivin’ Moan.” (As seen in “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.”)
Read MoreGertrude Ederle not only swam the English Channel. She swam it faster than anyone — man or woman. (As seen in “Young Woman and the Sea.”)
Read More“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.” — H.L. Mencken
Read More“There’s no secret to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.”
Read MoreSilent film was dead. Scandal tainted his career. His mother died. The Depression began. And Charlie Chaplin made “City Lights.”
Read MoreA refrigerator note. A spark of genius. A classic poem and the senders it inspired.
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