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Cotter Pen: Lady Macbeth

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Sunday, October 12, 2014. After Shakespeare wrote MACBETH, maybe there was not much else left to say about ambition, power, guilt, lust. Then along comes Giuseppe Verdi. Now Anna Netrebko. Verdi's MACBETH opened the 2014-15 season of the Metropolitan Opera's Live in HD,. Its ninth of high definition broadcasts to 2,000 movie theaters in 69 countries. The first encore of the season is scheduled for Wednesday at 6:30 pm local time. Diva Netrebko's Lady Macbeth:. The reminder of the season:. During the 1930...

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Tom Perrotta on Flannery O'Connor -- a literary affinity | ThoughtCast®

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An online watering hole for ideas. Tom Perrotta on Flannery O’Connor — a literary affinity. Note: This interview was broadcast on the WGBH sister stations WCAI/WNAN, and also on KUT, in Austin, Texas! The author of Little Children. And the upcoming novel The Leftovers. Speaks with ThoughtCast about a writer who fascinates, irritates and inspires him: Flannery O’Connor. Flannery O'Connor in her driveway in 1962 (photo credit: Joe McTyre). 30 minutes) to listen! Up next: Harvard Classicist Gregory Nagy.

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The Snark Who Hunts Back: Back to our regularly scheduled programming

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The Snark Who Hunts Back. Musings on life, love, politics, religion, pop culture and just about anything else that makes me compose lectures to myself in the shower. Explanation of my blogs name http:/ bit.ly/hQqPP7. Friday, February 18, 2011. Back to our regularly scheduled programming. After that invigorating swim in the waters of ignorance last night (and this afternoon) I feel inspired to write a bit about education. I read this article. She also listed some comments she wished she could post on stud...

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Cotter Pen: I'm Deaf, Not Stupid

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Sunday, September 15, 2013. I'm Deaf, Not Stupid. Most expert advice is not as insightful or useful as the first article I read in 2006 after I was hospitalized with meningitis, in a coma for three weeks, and woke up 100 percent deaf in both ears. “So you’ve had meningitis and now you’re deaf,” the article began. “Boy, are you lucky! First person accounts of being deaf are scant enough that if you Google the subject, you may even find some of my own. And successful writer of mystery novels. A couple of y...

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Cotter Pen: Sevastopol on the Black Sea

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Sunday, March 30, 2014. Sevastopol on the Black Sea. I have traveled outside the. Just enough to have little or no excuse for ignorance of world geography and history. My first ride on the Paris Metro from Gare de L’Est or perhaps Gare du Nord en route to Left Bank destinations Boulevard St. Michel, Saint-Germain des-pres, or Jardin du Luxembourg, the Metro station with the un-Francophonic name of. And the World Atlas. No Wikipedia. No Mapquest. No Map Crow. To tell you the distance between. Back in the ...

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Cotter Pen: November 22, 1963, Not-So-Golden Annversary

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Friday, November 22, 2013. November 22, 1963, Not-So-Golden Annversary. Chris Matthews, formerly of. The San Francisco Examiner. And currently host of MSNBC's. Matthews argues that Kennedy should be remembered for things other than his assassination on November 22, 1963. However, there are those of us who can never forget. Because our world never looked the same to us again after Kennedy in Dallas, with Oswald and Ruby. Posted by Cotter Pen. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). The sound of one finger.

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Cotter Pen: Best Kept Secrets

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Wednesday, July 16, 2008. I heard Frederico Fellini. Was dead, but I don’t believe it. I watched the Miss Universe Beauty Pagent on television, live from Vietnam, and if that was not Fellini, Marcello Mastrianni never trembled as Anita Ekberg emerged from a shimmering swim in the fountain. Perhaps the venue is unlucky for the U.S.A. The new Miss Universe, Dayana Mendoza, said once being a kidnap victim in her homeland had taught her to remain poised under pressure. According to promotional material.

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Cotter Pen: Birthdays and Beyond

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Thursday, June 11, 2015. I gave myself a birthday present, a roll top secretary, not a person but a small writing desk. I took some cast offs to the Goodwill and was irresistibly attracted by the desk, in great condition, needing only a little wax on the wood slides for the drawers, maybe a touch up here and there on the exterior stain. According to Wikipedia, “ Almost 99% of the mass of the human body is made up of six elements: oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, calcium, and phosphorus. Only...Wikiped...

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Cotter Pen: Why Argue?

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Saturday, May 10, 2014. I try not to argue with people who:. Know less about the subject than I do. Vote against everything I vote for. Have not lived long enough. Do not know the difference between a fact and a wish. Need to watch horror movies to experience fear. Are still learning the basics. Have more money than I do. Have less money than I do. Are taking mind-altering substances. Should be taking mind-altering substances. Have not read a book since school let out. Who else is there? Yamaha has recal...

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Cotter Pen: November 22, A Day I Can't Forget

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Thursday, November 22, 2007. November 22, A Day I Can't Forget. Maximum heat, minimum light. The Kennedy Administration was no Camelot. After the Peace Corps, his New Frontier proposals bogged down in Congress. Only national mourning and the legislative skills of Lyndon Johnson passed the 1964 Civil Rights Bill. Posted by Cotter Pen. November 25, 2007 at 12:18 PM. November 28, 2007 at 12:55 PM. November 30, 2007 at 9:12 AM. Adam was grinning ear-to-ear as he read your blog about his band! Subscribe to: P...