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A. M. Rosenthal (NY Times Managing Editor & columnist)
actors and acting
advice a la Dear Abby
aesthetics
Alan W. Smith (Roger W. Smith's father)
Aldrich Ames (convicted spy)
Anglo Saxon poetry
astronomy
audio books
autobiographical – Roger W. Smith
Balzac
baseball
book collecting
book reviews by Roger W. Smith
books (considered as such)
books – the physical book
Brandeis University – my courses & professors
Cambridge, MA
Canton High School, Canton, MA
Canton, MA
Carl Nielsen (Danish composer)
Charles Dickens
children's and young adult books
cinema
cities; urban living; urban policies and planning
correspondence of Roger W. Smith
creativity; thought
criminal "justice"
diaries of sons' early years kept by Roger W. Smith
discourse
Лев Николаевич Толстой
Питирим Александрович Сорокинn
editorial work (both done personally by me and as practiced in journalism and publishing)
Elinor Handy Smith (Roger W. Smith's mother)
English (the language)
epistolary (letter writing as a genre; letters as examples of good writing)
essays (by Roger W. Smith)
ethics
etiquette, personal conduct
exercise; personal health
family history (includes content that is broader in scope than just genealogy)
family separation (Trump administration)
foreign language papers by Roger Smith
foreign language study
García Lorca
genealogy
general interest
George Gissing (Victorian novelist)
grammar (thoughts of a grammar purist and ex-proofreader)
Harry Stack Sullivan
health care and medicine (considered generally)
Henry Miller
Herman Melville
Hiroshige, Utagawa – landscape prints
historians
historiography
James Boswell
Jonathan Swift
journalism by Roger W. Smith
journalism critiqued as such (and as specimens of writing)
journalism school papers by Roger Smith
Juan Ramón Jiménez (Spanish poet)
language (vocabulary, usage); language in the abstract as it pertains to writing
language policing (political correctness)
languages (general)
letters to editor by Roger W. Smith
Liberal Religious Youth (LRY) / Student Religious Liberals (SRL)
literature
Michel de Montaigne
miscellaneous writings (not by Roger Smith)
music (from the point of view of a listener)
musings (random daily thoughts)
my books
my city and neighborhood
my dogs
my family
my favorite art
my favorite books
my favorite films
my favorite music
my favorite places
my favorite poems
my friends
my reading; observations on reading
my recent ancestors (grandparents, great-grandparents, etc.)
my travels
nature
nutrition
obituaries and eulogies
obscenity
Old Norse Poetry
parenting
personal and miscellaneous writings of Roger W. Smith
personal psychology (Roger W. Smith observations re)
personal reminiscences of Roger W. Smith
personal views of Roger W. Smith
philology
photographic
Pitirim A. Sorokin (sociologist & social philosopher)
plagiarism
political correctness (PC)
politics; social issues and current events
popular music
public morality
publications (bibliography) of Roger W. Smith
Ralph Waldo Emerson
reading and readers
reference book articles by Roger W. Smith
relationships (general comments re)
religion
rhetoric and style
Samuel Johnson
scholarly articles by Roger W. Smith
Scholastic Search magazine – articles by Roger W. Smith
self-help
Shakespeare
Sherwood Anderson
social engineering
Theodore Dreiser
Thomas Wolfe
Thoreau
Tolstoy
tributes (written by Roger W. Smith)
Walt Whitman
whaling (19th century accounts of)
William Blake
work and the working life
writers considered not in depth, but as exemplars (for good or bad) of the craft
writing (the craft of writing; good vs. bad writing; my training, experience, and lessons re same)
writing as it relates to my blog posts and readers' sensitivities
writing/literature – miscellaneous observations
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A. M. Rosenthal (NY Times Managing Editor & columnist)
Alan Smith
Alan W. Smith
Alan W. Smith (Roger W. Smith's father)
Alan Wright Smith
Annie C. Hart
Annie Congdon Hart
Bill Dalzell
Carl Nielsen
Charles Dickens
Charles Pierre
Coronavirus
Coronavirus disease
COVID-19
Daniel Defoe A Journal of the Plague Year
Donald J. Trump
Donald Trump
Edvard Grieg
Elinor C. Handy
Elinor Congdon Handy
Elinor H. Smith
Elinor Handy
Elinor Handy Smith
Elinor Handy Smith (Roger W. Smith's mother)
Elinor Smith
family separation (Trump administration)
forced separation of migrant children from parents
George Gissing
George Orwell Nineteen Eighty-Four
Henry David Thoreau
Henry Miller
Henry T. Handy
Henry Thomas Handy
Herman Melville
Herman Melville Moby-Dick
Jane Gilchrist
Jeff Sessions
John Milton
Juan Ramón Jiménez (Spanish poet)
Kirstjen Nielsen
Liberal Religious Youth
Louisa May Alcott
LRY
Michel de Montaigne
migrant children in cages
mothers separated from nursing children
New York Times
P. A. Sorokin
Pitirim A. Sorokin
Pitirim Aleksandrovich Sorokin
Pitirim Sorokin
Ralph Colp Jr.
Ralph Colp[ Jr. MD
Ralph E. Handy
Ralph Ellis Handy
Ralph Waldo Emerson
reuniting migrant families
Robert Tighe
Robert W. Tighe
Roger Smith
Roger W. Smith
Samuel Johnson
separating tender age children at the border
separation of mothers and children
separation of undocumented children from parents
Stephen Miller
T. Gordon Smith
Theodore Dreiser
Walt Whitman
William Blake
William Handy
William S. Dalzell
William Sage Dalzell
zero tolerance
Питири́м Алекса́ндрович Соро́кин

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