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  • academic writing
  • 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
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  • criminal "justice"
  • diaries of sons' early years kept by Roger W. Smith
  • discourse
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  • editorial work (both done personally by me and as practiced in journalism and publishing)
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  • essays (by Roger W. Smith)
  • 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
  • George Gissing (Victorian novelist)
  • grammar (thoughts of a grammar purist and ex-proofreader)
  • Harry Stack Sullivan
  • health care and medicine (considered generally)
  • Henry Miller
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  • Hiroshige, Utagawa – landscape prints
  • historians
  • historiography
  • immigration policy
  • James Boswell
  • James Joyce
  • Jesuit Relations
  • 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)
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  • miscellaneous writings (not by Roger Smith)
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  • music (from the point of view of a listener)
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  • my travels
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  • obscenity
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  • personal psychology (Roger W. Smith observations re)
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  • social engineering
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  • transcendentalism
  • tributes (written by Roger W. Smith)
  • vocabulary
  • Walt Whitman
  • whaling (19th century accounts of)
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  • work and the working life
  • writers considered not in depth, but as exemplars (for good or bad) of the craft
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  • "Look up a word three times and it's yours."
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  • "Opinions are not the rules for actions.”
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  • "The Holy City" (song)
  • "Why I Like the Game of Baseball"
  • 'some favorite poems of Roger W. Smith
  • .Amadeus (film)
  • . Baseball is for the leisurely afternoons of summer.
  • . big words and archaic ones should not a priori be avoided
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  • A book is not merely an inanimate thing waiting to be read. Reading is an experience like any other say a personal or romantic relationship. What one gets out of a book -- the experience of reading it
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  • about 2500 immigrants in ICE detention have tested positive for the coronavirus. litigation over migrant minors detained with their parents during the pandemic
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  • A crisis gives them an incentive and what they regard as license to take out their mean impulses on the pretense that it’s for the common good. They view themselves as benefactors when it’s actual
  • A crisis such as a pandemic brings out magnanimity and heroism. Along with callousness in individuals who only care about their own safety -- and not a whit about others.
  • A critic once remarked somewhere that Henry Miller had to write in the first person.
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  • Adelaide Procter “Hush!”
  • A dismal putrid silence overhung the devastated city like a pall.
  • a disservice to Walt Whitman
  • Admission to the Metropolitan Museum of Art was free. The main branch of the New York Public Library was open 365 days a year. The subway and bus fares were 20 cents. So was the Staten Island ferry. A
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  • Adult Books: My Favorites; Thoughts About Reading
  • ADX
  • Aecom
  • A federal appeals court on November 12 2020 ruled that Harvard University’s admissions process does not violate civil rights law.
  • A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
  • afraid of commitment ... and death
  • A friend is someone from whom one does not require approval only the desire for companionship the desire to share.
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  • Aileen Ward: John Keats: The Making of a Poet
  • airport attack in Kabul Afghanistan August 26 2021
  • A jealous person somehow takes your success personally.
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  • Alan Hovhaness “Ave Maria” Opus. 100 no. 1a
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  • Alan Moorehead The Russian Revolution
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  • Alan Vaness Chakmakjian
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  • Alan W. Smith (Roger W. Smith's father)
  • Alan W. Smith Chart Room Cataumet MA
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  • Albert Schweitzer
  • Albert Schweitzer Aus Meinem Leben und Denken
  • Albert Schweitzer Out of My Life and Thought: An Autobiography
  • Albert Schweitzer Reverence for Life
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  • Aldous Huxley The Perennial Philosophy
  • Alexander L. Lipson
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  • Alexander Lipson A Russian Course
  • Alexander Pushkin “Autumn”
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  • Alexander’s Feast or The Power of Musick
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  • Alex Marshall Amanda Gorman’s Poetry United Critics. It’s Dividing Translators
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  • Alfred Lord Tennyson “Enoch Arden”
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  • Alfred Perlès My Friend Henry Miller
  • A library is not so much a marker of wealth and whiteness as it is an affirmation of community. …
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  • Alison J. Nathan
  • Allan Gurganus
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  • Allison R. First I Will Always Remember Al
  • All Quiet on the Western Front
  • All Saints Roman Catholic Church Brooklyn
  • all that could conceal their distempers did it
  • Almira Macomber
  • Almost everything in baseball looks easy and evident (as a skilled player having honed his skills through endless practice makes it appear) but learning the game is not.
  • A long sentence does not necessarily mean convoluted syntax
  • A lot of fatigue that people experience is actually the result of tedium and boredom of being inside too much doing repetitive work.
  • A lot of my contemporaries seem to think that they are self sufficient in their ability to reason and thereby to deduce their own truths (the absolute rightness of which they are convinced of) and tha
  • Al Sharpton
  • Alyssa Rosenberg The Great Dr. Seuss Hysteria of 2021 shows how silly and unimaginative adults can be
  • Amadeus (film)
  • Amadeus (play)
  • A madman with a brazier of burning coals on his head used to walk stark naked through the streets shouting that he was a prophet and repeating by way of an antiphony: 0 the great and dreadful God!
  • Amadou Diallo
  • Amanda Frost
  • Amanda Gorman The Hill We Climb
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  • amblyopia
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  • American Vecturist Association
  • Amerlia Shaw Congdon
  • Amy Cooper
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  • An Account of a useful Discovery to distil double the usual Quantity of Sea-Water by blowing Showers of Air up through the Distilling Liquor; and also to have the Distilled Water perfectly fresh and g
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  • An American Tragedy
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  • And make certain not to practice your righteousness before men in order to be watched by them.
  • and not to shun
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  • Andrew Jackson
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  • And this is Dorlcote Mill.
  • Andy Williams
  • Anessa Rabbit
  • Angel Garcia
  • Anisha Gupta
  • an island ... a city surrounded by WATER
  • Anna Jarvis
  • Anna Sewell Black Beauty
  • Anne-Marie Reynolds
  • Anne Frank
  • Anne Handy
  • Anne Sofie Von Otter “Like an Angel Passing Though My Room”
  • Annie C. Handy
  • Annie C. Hart
  • Annie Congdon Hart
  • Annie H. Handy
  • Annie Handy
  • Annie Hart
  • Annie Lee Graham
  • Annie M. Pounder
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  • an old-fashioned book title
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  • Anson B. Ellis
  • Anson B. Handy
  • Anson Burgess Ellis
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  • Anson Ellis
  • Anson Handy
  • Ansonia B. Ellis
  • Ansonia Ellis
  • Anthony Andrews
  • Anthony Lewis
  • Anthony Tommasini
  • Anthony Trollope
  • Anthony Weiner
  • Anton Chekhov
  • Anton Chekhov The Lady with the Dog
  • Anton Chekhov The Man in a Case
  • Antonio Vivaldi
  • Antonio Vivaldi Stabat Mater
  • Antonio Vivaldi Stabat Mater RV 589
  • APBA board game
  • Apocryphal stories always have stock figures.
  • Arabella F. Swift
  • Arabella Hewins
  • Arabella Swif
  • Archibald Wright
  • Ariel Durant
  • Arlo Devlin-Brown
  • Armanda Kramer
  • Arnold Hano
  • Arnold Hano "A Day in the Bleachers"
  • Arnold S. Congdon
  • Arnold Shaw
  • Arnold Shaw Congdon
  • Arnold Toynbee A Study of History
  • Art Buchwald
  • Arthur Contois
  • Arthur H. Handy
  • Arthur Handy
  • Arthur Henry
  • Arthur Henry Handy
  • Arthur Henry The Unwritten Law
  • Arthurian romances
  • Arthur Koestler Darkness at Noon
  • Arthur Pope
  • Arthur Sullivan "Will He Come"
  • Arun P. Mukherjee
  • A Russian Affair (web site)
  • A Russian Affair literary web site
  • A sentence has a subject and predicate A sentence expresses a complete thought.
  • Ashley Judd
  • As Leo Tolstoy observed one’s horror at the depravity of heinous crimes seems to vary inversely with the length of time passed since the crime was committed.
  • a society in which “the individual … must be degraded “organized according to a reasoned scheme in the interests of the group”
  • As regards the question of immortality maybe it’s hard to believe in it from a religious point of view but we can say with certainty that people do live on in our memories.
  • Association of American Publishers
  • As Tolstoy observed one’s horror at the depravity of heinous crimes seems to vary inversely with the length of time passed since the crime was committed.
  • Astral Weeks
  • A team cannot stall or run the ball into the line to kill the clock or manipulate the clock in order to score. A tie game does not exist -- all games must end in a victory and a defeat and a tied game
  • Attentive care and alertness to complaints and needs as well as sympathy and empathy can work miracles for sick persons.
  • Attorney general is the highest-profile Cabinet slot left to fill. There is a widespread belief among people close to the selection process that picking Austin and Fudge gives Biden more breathing roo
  • a typical day in Balzac’s working life
  • Audrey Cooper
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  • Augustine Walker
  • Au hasard Balthasar
  • Austin Dobson Introduction Poems and Plays By Oliver Goldsmith Everyman’s Library
  • A verb when used with a subject and tense is finite; definitive
  • A verb with a personal ending is called a finite verb. This is in contrast to the infinitive form of verbs.
  • avoiding composition class prose
  • avoiding composition class prose dismal grayness
  • Avrahm Yarmolinsky
  • a writer should enjoy and exercise great freedom in choosing words
  • Aya Gruber
  • Aydan Şener
  • A “worthy successor” to Mayor Shinn has been found!. Tommy Tuberville
  • B. S. Ingemann
  • Babe Ruth’s “called shot”
  • Bach Adagio Concerto for violin and oboe in D minor BWV 1060
  • Bach adagio violin concerto in E Major BMV 1042
  • Bach B Minor Mass (BWV 232)
  • Bach Fuga Ricercata No. 2; arranged by Anton von Webern
  • Bach Prelude and Fugue in C Major
  • Bach St. Matthew Passion
  • Backed by careful research his unfussy prose triumphantly carries off the mild literary fraud of A Journal of the Plague Year which at one level is the most striking historical document to come out of
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  • Balzac
  • Balzac La Comédie humaine
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  • Bartók Eight Hungarian Folksongs for voice and piano
  • Bartók nyolc magyar népdal
  • Baseball has a rich vocabulary.
  • Baseball has a wonderfully fair method of scoring -- one for each run.
  • baseball history
  • Baseball invites good writing.
  • Baseball is a blend of the team and the individual.
  • Baseball is an uncluttered and beautifully designed game.
  • Baseball is a thinking man’s game because it can be contemplated as well as played with great satisfaction.
  • Baseball is indeed a most wonderful and beautifully designed game.
  • Baseball is such an aesthetically satisfying game to play and watch.
  • battle over Confederate monuments
  • Beata Mariana de Jesus Mejia-Mejia
  • Beethoven
  • Beethoven "Moonlight" sonata
  • Beethoven/Goethe “Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage”
  • Beethoven as in the Pastorale Symphony -- and also in the Choral Fantasy and Ode To Joy -- could write outstanding music (as say Stravinsky really couldn’t in this respect despite the supposed prima
  • Beethoven Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage
  • Beethoven Late Quartets
  • Beethoven late string quartets
  • Beethoven Mass in C major
  • Beethoven Mass in C major opus 86
  • Beethoven Meeresstille und glückliche Fahrt
  • Beethoven Ode to Joy
  • Beethoven piano sonata no. 27 opus 90
  • Beethoven symphonies
  • Beethoven Symphony No. 3 “Eroica”
  • Beethoven Symphony No. 6 Pastorale
  • Beethoven Variations on Folk Songs
  • Beethoven Wellington's Victory
  • Beethoven’s symphonies transcribed for piano
  • Beethoven “Appassionata" sonata
  • Beethoven “Moonlight” Sonata third movement
  • Beethoven “Pathétique” sonata
  • Before the ripened field the reapers stand
  • Behind the church in Aldgate an enormous pit was dug. Here the drivers unloaded their carts and threw merciful lime over the blackened corpses. The desperate and the criminal revelled day and night in
  • Being able to see what the other side has to say is not a sign of weak thinking or of an inferior easily swayed mind. It is to be desired on the contrary.
  • being confined inside with indoor heat makes a cold worse.
  • Being in New York City; or more specifically Manhattan. Always a surge of positive energy. A sense of exhilaration A lifting of the sprits. It’s hard to be depressed. How does one account for it?
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  • Benjamin Franklin List of Virtues
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  • Berlioz Requiem
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  • Bernhard Severin Ingemann
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  • Bessie Mildred Freeman
  • Bessie Z. Jones
  • Beth Albee
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  • Bever-Lee Ann Doyle
  • Beverly Ann Doyle
  • Beware of people who live administer or govern by slogans.
  • Bill Barr
  • Bill Clinton
  • Bill Clinton My Life
  • Bill Cosby
  • Bill Dalzell
  • Bill Komodore
  • Bill paid twenty-nine dollars a month for a one-bedroom apartment on East 5th Street.
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  • Biographical Sketch of Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy
  • Birdie Tebbetts
  • Biscogli concerto
  • Bishop W. Appleton Lawrence
  • Black Woman’s Bid to Regain Voting Rights Ends With a 6-Year Prison Sentence
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  • Boswell did a great service in preserving so much of Johnson’s conversation. He also wrote one of the great if not the greatest biographies of all time. Yet his Johnson is often a caricature of hims
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  • Brahms Denn alles Fleisch es ist wie Gras
  • Brahms Ein deutsches Requieum
  • Brahms Piano Quintet in F minor
  • Brahms String Quartet No. 1 in C minor
  • Branch Rickey
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  • Brandon Mitchell
  • Brandon Victor Dixon
  • Brandt Jean
  • Brenda Wineapple
  • Bret Stephens
  • Brett Kavanaugh
  • Brian Buczak
  • British Man Sentenced to 40 Years in Al Qaeda Plot
  • Broadway is the oldest and the longest t north–south main thoroughfare in New York City.
  • Bronson Alcott
  • Bronx High School of Science
  • Brooklyn Heights Promenade
  • Brooks Landon
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  • Buck Newsom
  • Buck Showalter
  • Budd Schulberg "What Makes Sammy Run?'"
  • Bunky Morrison
  • Burt Lancaster
  • But I realize that I am fundamentally a Christian.
  • But unrequited Love! thy dart / Plunged deepest its envenomed smart
  • Byron Dobell
  • by the bemisted moon / the lazy orient sleeps
  • Béla Bartók Romanian Folk Dances
  • C. Carroll Hollis
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  • Caldwell Wright
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  • California History­ Social Sciences Curriculum Reform Committee
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  • Camelia Moulton
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  • Camille Saint-Saëns
  • Camille Whittredge
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  • canned vs. fresh food
  • Canton
  • Canton 18 Stoughton 8 1959
  • Canton High Graduates 208 The Canton Journal Canton MA June 1964
  • Canton High School
  • Canton High School Canton MA
  • Canton High School Canton Massachusetts
  • Cappy Pinderhughes
  • Capt. Caleb Congdon
  • Capt. Calvin Parker
  • Capt. Joseph Congdon
  • Capt. Joshua Handy
  • Capt. Livermore Whittredge Jr.
  • Capt. William Handy 1762-1852
  • Capt. William Handy Jr. 1801-1879
  • Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin
  • Cark Nielsen Sange
  • Carl C. Johnson MD
  • Carl Cordes Johnson
  • Carl Cordes Johnson MD
  • Carleton T. Handy
  • Carl Nielsen
  • Carl Nielsen "Homesickness"
  • Carl Nielsen Den danske sang
  • Carl Nielsen Der er et yndigt land. Carl Nielsen A fair and Lovely Land)
  • Carl Nielsen Fynsk Foraar
  • Carl Nielsen Helios Overture
  • Carl Nielsen Min fynske barndom
  • Carl Nielsen My Childhood
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  • Carl Nielsen Tidt er jeg glad og vil dog gerne græde
  • Carl Nielsen Twelve Songs
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  • Children are brought here by coyotes and lots of bad people. Cartels. And they’re brought here and they used to use them to get into our country.
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  • cognitive dissonance
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  • colds develop from constantly alternating between indoors (overheated) and outdoors (cold)
  • colds develop from not staying outdoors long enough to let the cold fresh air work its beneficial effects
  • colds develop from overheated buildings
  • colds develop from staying inside most of the time
  • Colin B. Bailey
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  • Come let us gloat over the beast in the cage.
  • Comma splices are almost always an avoidable and unjustifiable error
  • Common sense and experience tell us that fresh air and sunlight are inimical to germs and to the spread of disease.
  • complaints and what their needs are. And if this does not occur treatment will not be effective.
  • congestion pricing
  • CONTEMPO Volume III Number 13; James Joyce Issue
  • controversy over the issue of school busing in Boston
  • cookbook medicine
  • Cornelius Ford
  • Coronavirus
  • Coronavirus disease
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  • Could Theodore Dreiser ever truly love anyone? The answer is NO.
  • COVID-19
  • CreateSpace Independent Publshing Platform
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  • D. W. Griffith Intolerance
  • Daily Worker
  • Dale Carnegie How to Win Friends and Influence People
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  • Daniel Defoe
  • Daniel Defoe A Journal of the Plague Year
  • Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe
  • Daniel Defoe The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
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  • dead-carts
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  • Death in such circumstances -- unendurable to contemplate something you are never prepared for -- can also be a release and a relief.
  • Deborah Bryant Har
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  • Deep under water rolled; Sea cover’d Sea / Sea without shore
  • definiton of jarring
  • Defoe builds the narrative from minutely observed and recorded details.
  • Defoe is notable in there is hardly and exposition or authorial intervention.
  • Defoe knew the uses of adversity. The plague drives some to madness some to wickedness; but the multitude make sacrifices for their families struggle to survive and take steps to preserve themselves a
  • Defoe Robinson Crusoe
  • Defoe wrote fast reluctant to make revisions in a plain English stripped of classical allusions dosed with a strong draft of the Bible--a language brisk direct and powerful as every reader will discov
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  • Did Jimmy Piersall do all the crazy things he did? (Ask Yogi.)
  • Dido’s lament
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  • Dissatisfaction with themselves and present conditions becomes disapproval of others.
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  • Diversity also represents a pathway for excellence for both Harvard and the nation. We will continue to defend these principles and our admissions process all the way to the Supreme Court if necessary
  • diversity as an educational goal
  • diversity in higher education
  • diversity in the curriculum
  • Diversity is not merely a desirable addition to a well-rounded education. It is as essential as the study of the Middle Ages of international politics and of Shakespeare.
  • Dmitri Shostakovich
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  • Do you think it is fair for a 67-year-old man to be sent to prison for seven to nine years?
  • Dr. Colp once said to me "There are great gaps in my knowledge" by which he meant his knowledge in general (his book learning). He had the humility of a true intellectual.
  • Dr. Erwin Gaines
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  • drug abuse
  • drug laws
  • During preadolescence certain dramatic developments which are probably necessary to elevate the person to really human estate move forward with simply astounding speed.
  • Dustin Hoffman
  • Dvořák's Symphony No. 7 in D Minor
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  • Edward Everett Hale review of Leaves of Grass North American Review January 1856
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  • Edward T. Hall The Hidden Dimension
  • Edwin F. Lawrence
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  • Edwin O'Connor The Edge of Sadness
  • Edwin O'Connor The Last Hurrah
  • Edwin Treitler
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  • Elinor Handy Smith
  • Elinor Handy Smith (Roger W. Smith's mother)
  • Elinor Handy Smith. Elinor C. Handy
  • Elinor Smith
  • Eliot School Canton MA
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  • Elisabeth van der Meer A Russian Affair
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  • Emotion -- particularized human emotion -- comes through so strongly in Schubert’s lieder. It is the music of a composer and also a poet in his medium (music).
  • Emphasis is achieved by placing weight or stress on certain key points or sections in the essay and on the conclusion. The skillful writer can achieve this sometimes without being obvious.
  • emphasis is not always a matter of putting the key idea at the end
  • Encarnacion Lopez
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  • English Composition
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  • et in terra pax hominibus bonae voluntatis
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  • Eugenie Fraser A House by the Dvina
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  • Evert Duyckinck review of Herman Melville Moby Dick The Literary World November 15 1851
  • Evert Duyckinck review of Herman Melville Moby Dick The Literary World November 22 1851
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  • Every friend is precious just as every person is unique and precious.
  • Everyone one wants to amount to something.
  • Every single time you do surgery and cut into tissue you damage nerves. Dr. Anat Galor
  • everything pales in comparison to how he voted?
  • Excessive diagnosis may lead to treatment that is worse than the disease. H. Gilbert Welch Lisa M. Schwartz Steven Woloshin
  • Exercise routines can’t fail to become monotonous.
  • Existential Isolation
  • exoplanets
  • extraterrestrial life
  • F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Fairest Lord Jesus
  • Faith Healing; Indian Culture; review of Mayor by Edward I. Koch (three journalism school papers by Roger W. Smith)
  • family detention centers run by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
  • family separation (Trump administration)
  • Family Separation: A Daily Diary
  • family separation policy
  • family separation repost XI (the family separation policy was deliberately implemented under Trump’s orders … officials who later denied it were fully aware … the Justice Department was instrume
  • family separation repost XII - NEW DEVELOPMENTS
  • family separation Trump administration
  • Family separation versus coronavirus exposure
  • Farhad Manjoo
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  • feudalism Samuel Johnson
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  • finding indeed no trade"
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  • Fischer crushes Spassky Takes Lead in Title Match
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  • flight from the cities
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  • Flores settlement
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  • forced separation of migrant children from parents
  • Ford Madox Ford
  • Forest Hill Cemetery Madison WI
  • For exercise to be done regularly and over a long sustained period of time it’s got to be fun — psychologically enjoyable — and not seem like a CHORE.
  • Fort Amsterdam
  • foundation of the City of New York
  • Francesco Biscogli
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  • Francis Parkman The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century
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  • Franz Joseph Haydn
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  • Franz Liszt's transcriptions for piano of Beethoven’s symphonies
  • Franz Liszt piano transcriptions of Beethoven symphonies
  • Franz Schubert
  • Franz Schubert Winterreise
  • Franz Schubert “Et incarnatus est”
  • Frederick P. Hebb Jr. When Boston Censored Walt Whitman New York Times Magazine June 19 1927
  • Frederick Rotzler
  • Frederick Wiseman Ex Libris
  • Fred Lindstrom
  • Fred Paris and the Five Satins
  • Fredrick Newton Arvin
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  • freelancing
  • fresh air and sunlight are inimical to germs and to the spread of disease
  • Fresh air and sunshine (as well as exercise) are a good prescription for keeping disease at bay -- any disease -- as well as for physical and mental health.
  • fresh air is the best medicine
  • Friedrich Trumpf
  • Friendships start entirely naturally and without any fanfare.
  • Fritz Knapp
  • frozen vs. fresh food
  • Funeral wagons passed through the streets by night driven by veiled carters who kept their mouths covered with disinfected cloths. A crier walked before them ringing a bell intermittently and calling
  • Fynsk Foraar
  • Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Ga
  • Gabriel Fauré Requiem
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  • Gabriel García Márquez Love in the Time of Cholera
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  • Gay Talese
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  • Gaza border riots
  • gendered pronouns
  • gender neutral language
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  • Gentlemen's Way
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  • George Eliot Silas Marner
  • George Eliot The Mill on the Floss
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  • George Gershwin Porgy and Bess
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  • George Gissing New Grub Street
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  • George Orwell Keep the Aphrodista Flying
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  • Germs love the indoors — the perfect incubator for them.
  • Gesundheit Institute
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  • ginger snap cookies
  • ginger snaps
  • Ginia Bellafante
  • Giovanni Battista Pergolesi Stabat Mater
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  • Gloria Missa Luba
  • Glory to God in the highest and peace to his people on earth
  • God's in His heaven All's right with the world
  • Goethe Maximen und Reflexionen
  • Good writers are allowed to break the rules but first they must know them
  • Grace Hopper College
  • grammar rules should not be ignored simply out of ignorance or on account of laziness or political correctness
  • Grammar teachers are an extinct species.
  • Grand Central Oyster Bar
  • great writers sometimes use foreign words
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  • Gregorian Chant
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  • Grieg "Homesickness"
  • Grieg Lyric Pieces
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  • Guantanamo Bay detention camp
  • Guantánamo Bay detainees
  • Guillaume de Machaut
  • Guillaume de Machaut Messe de Nostre Dame
  • Gustavo Garcia-Siller
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  • H. L. Mencken
  • H. L. Mencken Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) The Baltimore Evening Sun November 23 1916
  • haiku
  • Hamilton Broadway Show
  • Hamlet
  • Handel "Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne"
  • Handel "Sosarme re di Media"
  • Handel Acis and Galatea
  • Handel Alexander’s Feast
  • Handel Eternal Source of Light Divine
  • Handel Foundling Hospital Anthem
  • Handel Israel in Egypt
  • Handel Judas Maccabeus
  • Handel Samson
  • Handel Semele or The Wrath of Juno
  • Handel Sosarme
  • Handel Water Music
  • Handel Water Music Suite
  • Handel Zadok the Priest Coronation Anthem No. 1
  • Handel “As steals the morn upon the night”
  • Handel “l’Allegro ed il Pensero” LP Anthony Lewis
  • Handel “l’Allegro il Penseroso ed il Moderato”
  • Handel “Softly sweet in Lydian Measures
  • Handy
  • Hannah A. Collar
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  • Hans Christian Andersen The Emperor’s New Clothes
  • Hans Christian Andersen The Emporer's New Clothes
  • Happiness in a person without an admixture of sadness seems to be inimical to the human condition.
  • Harold Aspiz
  • Harold Bloom
  • Harold Bloom Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human
  • Harold Robbins A Stone for Danny Fisher
  • Harriet C. Moulton
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  • Harry Marshard and his Orchestra
  • Harry S. Truman
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  • Harry Stack Sullivan Conceptions of Modern Psychiatry
  • Harry Stack Sullivan on absolute love
  • Harry Stack Sullivan on preadolescence
  • Harry Stack Sullivan the chum
  • Harry Stack Sullivan The Interpersonal Theory of Psychiatry
  • Harry Stack Sullivan The Psychiatric Interview
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  • Harvard does not discriminate against Asian-Americans (except that it does).
  • Harvard Victory Pushes Admissions Case Toward a More Conservative Supreme Court: The court’s rightward tilt under President Trump whose administration supported efforts to end race-based admissions
  • Harvey Weinstein.
  • Harvey Weinstein was a sexual predator who behaved like a monster. HE is not a monster.
  • Has anyone ever written (painted in words) a more accurate telling description of a rainstorm: in this case a storm at sea (Milton is referring to The Flood)?
  • Having a moral frame of refence those values we were brought up with is not to be taken lightly.
  • Haydn
  • Haydn Consummatum est!
  • Haydn Die Jahreszeiten
  • Haydn Die sieben letzten Worte unseres Erlösers am Kreuze
  • Haydn mass in B flat major
  • Haydn Mass in Time of War
  • Haydn Missa in tempore belli
  • Haydn Nelson Mass
  • Haydn Paukenmesse
  • Haydn Schöpfungsmesse
  • Haydn symphony no. 6 ("Le matin")
  • Haydn Theresienmesse
  • Haydn The Seasons
  • Haydn The Seven Last Words of Our Saviour on the Cross
  • healing masses
  • health care practices
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  • Heinrich Schütz The Christmas Story
  • Heinrich Schütz Weihnachtshistorie)
  • Helen (Patges) (Richardson) Dreiser
  • Helen Dreiser
  • Helen Gordon
  • Helen Patges
  • Helen Richardson
  • Helen Smith
  • Helge Rode
  • Hemingway; insufferable mind numbing monotony
  • Henrietta Howland
  • Henrietta Robinson
  • Henri Troyat "Gogol"
  • Henri Troyat Tolstoy
  • Henry Arnold
  • Henry Clapp
  • Henry David Aiken
  • Henry David Thoreau
  • Henry David Thoreau "Walking"
  • Henry Fonda
  • Henry Handy
  • Henry J. Cadbury
  • Henry James
  • Henry M. Christman
  • Henry Miller
  • Henry Miller Black Spring
  • Henry Miller Crazy Cock
  • Henry Miller Letters to Emil
  • Henry Miller on total love man for woman
  • Henry Miller Plexus
  • Henry Miller Sexus
  • Henry Miller The Rosy Crucifixion
  • Henry Miller The Time of the Assassins
  • Henry Miller The World of Sex
  • Henry Miller Tropic of Cancer
  • Henry Miller Tropic of Capricorn
  • Henry Miller was a born writer.
  • Henry Miller’s first unpublished book Clipped Wings was inspired by Theodore Dreiser’s Twelve Men.
  • Henry Moulton
  • Henry Purcell
  • Henry Purcell harpshicord suites
  • Henry Purcell King Arthur or the British Worthy
  • Henry Purcell “The Fairy-Queen”
  • Henry Roth Call It Sleep
  • Henry S. Moulton
  • Henry Smith
  • Henry Sweet Moulton
  • Henry T. Handy
  • Henry T. Handy First Mate Morning Star
  • Henry T. Handy whaler
  • Henry Thomas Handy
  • Henry W. Smith
  • Henry Ward Beecher
  • Henry Whittredge Smith
  • He pointed out how Hopper made use of light.
  • Herbert F. Moulton
  • Herbert Fass Moulton
  • Herbert Gilchrist
  • Herbert Harlakenden Gilchrist
  • Herbert Katzin
  • Herbert Katzin MD
  • Herbert M. Katzin
  • Herbert M. Katzin MD
  • Herbert von Karajan
  • Herb Weeks
  • Herman Handy
  • Herman Melville
  • Herman Melville A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
  • Herman Melville Hawthorne and His Mosses The Literary World August 17 1850
  • Herman Melville Hawthorne and His Mosses The Literary World August 24 1850
  • Herman Melville Moby-Dick
  • Herman Melville Moby-Dick; Chapter 1 (“Looming’s")
  • Herman Melville Monody
  • Herman Melville publishing poetry in a man-of-war
  • Herman Melville White-Jacket or The World in a Man-of-War
  • Herman P. Handy
  • Herman Putnam Handy
  • Hershel Parker
  • Hester Cooke
  • Hester Gibbs
  • Hester Mahieu
  • He used to marvel at the fact that so many people of all races and nationalities lived cheek by jowl in harmony.
  • He used to marvel at the fact that so many people of all races and nationalities lived cheek by jowl in harmony. At the richness of culture. At the convenience of things such as getting around. At how
  • He who is ignorant of foreign languages knows not his own.
  • He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars.
  • He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars. General Good is the plea of the scoundrel hypocrite and flatterer.
  • He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars. William Blake Jerusalem
  • hielera
  • hieleras
  • high crimes and misdemeanors
  • Hillary Clinton
  • Hillary Clinton deplorables speech
  • Hiroshige
  • His virtues walked their narrow round / Nor made a pause nor left a void;
  • Hogan Gidley
  • Holland Walters
  • Hollywood Flower Cemetery Los Angeles
  • Honoré de Balzac
  • Horace Traubel With Walt Whitman in Camden
  • Horacio Quiroga
  • Hortatory slogans and admonitions mantras pompous platitudes are not going to make people more educated aware sensitive tolerant.
  • How about letting the dead and departed -- all the dead and departed -- rest in peace?
  • how about the Trump supporters who enacted a scheme of fake electors for the 2020 presidential election? Think they will be arrested any time soon?
  • Howard A. Nelson
  • Howard Gaskill
  • Howard Kakita
  • Howard Morrison
  • Howard Morrison Canton High School
  • Howard Priluck
  • Howard R. Garris Uncle Wiggily
  • Howard Thurman
  • How baseball games can be reconstructed afterwards in the mind with such pleasure including long after.
  • How can one -- why would one -- mistranslate unambiguous words from the Latin mass? It is Glory to God in the highest.and peace on earth to men of good will.
  • How can you get a 40 year sentence for something you did not do? Where is the justice in that?
  • how could she omit the dates? (Whitman scholars won't be happy)
  • Howdy Doody
  • How to Enjoy James Joyce’s Great Novel (Ulysses) Random House 1934
  • Hudson River
  • Hudson Yards
  • Human Rights and the Trump Administration’s Family Separation Policy
  • Humphrey Bogart
  • Hungarian String Quartet
  • Hunter (Patch) Adams
  • Hávamál
  • Hávamál (Sayings of the High One; translated from Old Norse)
  • I. F. Stone
  • I admire (which is an understatement) and completely respect religious people from Saint Augustine to Albert Schweitzer from Saint Francis to Dorothy Day from Meister Eckhart to George Fox from Martin
  • I admire Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin who was recently installed as the archbishop of Newark NJ.
  • I admire Walter J. Ciszek S.J. the priest who endured twenty years imprisonment in the Soviet Union and hard labor in the Gulag on trumped up charges of being a “Vatican spy.”
  • I also experienced this when I saw Pier Paolo Pasolini’s film The Gospel According to Matthew (1964). The film is so powerful and convincing the Gospel stories become so credible that one is totally
  • I always thought censorship was a bad thing but now we are being told it's often a good thing.
  • I am continually learning new words.
  • I am definitely a bibliophile but I do not collect books solely to be able to say I own them or for money as an antiquarian might.
  • I am extremely grateful that my parents didn’t neglect my religious upbringing.
  • I am looking forward to the wonderfully temperate beautiful autumn days.
  • I am my own best editor and critic.
  • I am offended deeply so that someone would change the text of a beautiful mass by Beethoven the text of the Latin mass which has existed for over four centuries.
  • I can think of no other book that … has deterred so many intelligent people from making a firsthand acquaintance with the work of a very great writer and thinker.
  • Ida E. Moulton
  • Ida Evangeline Moulton
  • I defy anyone to listen to the masses of Haydn Mozart Beethoven or Schubert; to Monteverdi’s “Magnificat”; to Vivaldi’s “Gloria” or “Stabat Mater” or Antonín Dvo?ák’s “Stabat Mat
  • ides off or won't be struck fairly?
  • I don’t choose friends or intimate acquaintances based on a checklist.
  • I don’t pick friends on externals such as occupation social class race or religion; and not based on which candidate or party they support.
  • I enjoy extremes of temperature.
  • I enjoy extremes of temperature. I like to experience them.
  • I experienced a sort of "street shock": everyone seemed in such a hurry; the people on the subways looked kind of pale and pasty; no one seemed to have time for you ... It was all cement and steel: hi
  • I feel that it is common sense that staying indoors all the time is not healthy under any circumstances -- including the present public health crisis.
  • I feel that Nabokov does not have or achieve in his writings the emotional depth of a Tolstoy or Dostoevsky that his works do not strike the same deep chords.
  • I find that encountering and considering views that may cause confusion at first can be a very good thing as seems to have been the case with great thinkers who were not afraid to do this.
  • I find that even on the hottest summer mornings it is often cooler outdoors.
  • I find Trump’s habitual lying hard to comprehend.
  • If I see good in someone humanity sincerity etc. that is enough from me. There may be egregious failings as well.
  • If the other person desires a friendship they probably have something to offer.
  • If we are going to relegate writers to inferior status on account of stylistic gaucherie we have a problem when it comes to novelists such as Defoe Balzac and Dickens.
  • Igor Straninsky
  • I got this from my father and mother who did not take the beautiful New England weather with its four distinct seasons for granted.
  • I greatly value the friendships I have formed with intellectuals and deep thinkers. I do not however look down per se on people less well read or educated than me.
  • I grew up in New England. In both places I was very glad that I was able to experience all four seasons.
  • I hate "social distancing."
  • I have been seeking music that is right for this moment; that consoles and comforts
  • I have come over the years to be myself fascinated by light. Early morning light daylight late afternoon light. The light hitting the grass. Different shades of light and degrees of brightness. Summer
  • I have committed many lines of Leaves of Grass to memory.
  • I have never forgotten these four core friends of mine.
  • I have never subjected or considered doing so friends or acquaintances to an ideological litmus test.
  • I know many people who have read--or dipped into-- Bowell’s Life but have not read a word of Johnson.
  • I know the Latin mass by heart. When words such as Laudamus te benedicimus te adoramus te glorifcamus te … Agnus Dei qui tollis peccata mundi; dona nobis pacem … Crucifìxus etiam pro nobis sub Po
  • I live in New York City. Here and elsewhere — in the midst of the Coronavirus epidemic — people are being urged or ordered to STAY INDOORS. As a blanket recommendation this seems to me unwise medi
  • I love the change of seasons to be able to experience it.
  • I lvoe to sutdy the particulars of languges.
  • Ilya Bolotowsky
  • Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
  • immigration policy Walt Whitman and Donald Trump’s wall; or the Berlin Wall redux
  • impeachment
  • Im Westen nichts Neues
  • I myself have seen the “huge cakes of ice” on the Hudson
  • In any profession or avocation where skill is required no instruction or practice is ever wasted.
  • In baseball the scoring is done by the team that doesn’t have the ball. There is no grubby battling for possession; there are no interceptions.. In baseball the scoring is done by the team that does
  • Increase Mather
  • Increase Mather Sermon Occasioned by the Execution of a Man Found Guilty of Murder
  • individual stories of family separation under the Trump administration
  • Indo-European languages
  • Indo-European peoples
  • indoors versus outdoors during the Coronavirus epidemic
  • I never really chose a friend except upon the criterion that we enjoyed knowing one another.
  • Ingolf Wunder
  • in many cases we need to add words to improve our writing
  • In Spanish class querulous students are voicing objections when nouns are assigned a gender: e.g. el mano la mesa
  • In springtime the only pretty ring time
  • In springtime the only pretty ring time / When birds do sing hey ding a ding ding; / Sweet lovers love the spring.
  • In Sunday school I got an excellent grounding in the Bible.
  • International Religious Fellowship
  • International Theodore Dreiser Society
  • In testimony of ancient and unbroken friendship this flagpole is presented to the City of New York by the Dutch people 1626
  • inventory of Dreiserana (Dreiser books and materials) in Roger W. Smith’s private library
  • Inwood Hill Park
  • I prefer to do good in minute particulars.
  • I prefer to do good in minute particulars. In little ways. In my immediate environment. Where I live. Among friends and friends of friends or relatives. And mostly for people whom I encounter anonymou
  • I prefer “dense” writing. By which I mean not necessarily turgid but packed with descriptive details and meaning.
  • Ira Priluck
  • I recall that when studying Russian I was intrigued by learning the subjunctive.
  • I refuse to accept a medicalized life. Barbara Ehrenreich
  • I respect clergymen priests and nuns for their seriousness of purpose and devotion to their calling.
  • Irvin D. Yalom
  • Irving D. Yalom “The Four Ultimate Concerns”
  • Irving Fine Symphony 1962
  • Isaac Jogues
  • Isabelle Nef
  • I said “there was a society of men among us bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose that white is black and black is white according as they are paid.
  • I see similarities between Dankness at Noon and George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four.
  • Iseko Kano
  • is it good to give to beggars?
  • is it possible (or desirable) to hold two divergent opinions at the same time?
  • Is it possible that some parents become over involved? That a certain distance should be maintained?
  • Is Ulysses really a novel? -- is it even a novel? Is it a good story?
  • It (walking) is a way to get exercise without it seeming to be a chore.
  • I take all weather with equanimity.
  • I take the same delight -- and experience the same perpetual wonder -- in the City that Whitman did. He is my Doppelgänger. I feel such kinship with him.
  • I take the weather as it comes. I never complain about it.
  • it has been my experience when experiencing symptoms of a cold or cough that once I go out the symptoms seem to ease (in the winter months)
  • It has been my feeling for some time that Pachelbel should be a lot better known than he is -- and not just known for one or two famous works (e.g. his Canon in D).
  • I think that religion is important because it humbles us. We need to believe and to be able to conceive of something greater than our puny selves something that inspires awe and reverence.
  • It is a city surrounded and bathed by water.
  • It is a sport not limited in any total sense by boundary lines.
  • It is good --- following the example and preaching of Jesus -- to assist
  • It is not good for sick persons to be immobilized.
  • it pays to study another language
  • It seems that while some of the rich are fleeing New York City it is ordinary people often who are the salt of the earth.
  • It seems to me that religion is a core part of what it is to be human.
  • It usually is the case that if two people don’t get along they can’t have a successful working relationship.
  • It was a time or rising prosperity and social cohesion.
  • It was at Rome on the 15th of October 1764 as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol while the bare-footed fryars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter that the idea of writing the decli
  • It was Truman's new toy; we couldn't resist using it. He was foolish enough to brag about us having it to Stalin in Potsdam.
  • It’s moments like this that make life beautiful and momentarily obviate doubt and cynicism.
  • Ivanka Trump
  • I was angry with my friend; / I told my wrath my wrath did end. / I was angry with my foe: / I told it not my wrath did grow.
  • I was working on this passage today as a co-translator of the above-named work; and I got to thinking what a rich language Russian is. It has continued since my college days to fascinate and challenge
  • J. Arthur Williams
  • J. Edgar Hoover
  • J. H. Plumb
  • J. H. Plumb and Jason Goodwin on Defoe’s “A Journal of the Plague Year”
  • J. H. Plumb Foreword A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe
  • J. K. Ohene
  • J. M. Synge The Aran Islands
  • J. Plumb
  • J. S. Bach
  • J.S. Bach Matthäus-Passion
  • J.S. Bach St. Matthew Passion
  • J. S. Bach Wir setzen uns mit Tränen nieder
  • Jack Beatty
  • Jack Fisher
  • Jack Horigan
  • Jackie Evancho
  • Jackie Robinson
  • Jackson J. Benson
  • Jacob Flint
  • Jacquelyn Kasulis
  • James Agee A Death in the Family
  • James B. Congdon
  • James B. Klee
  • James Boswell
  • James Boswell Life of Johnson
  • James Bunker Congdon
  • James Cagney
  • James Congdon
  • James E. Smith
  • James Edward Smith
  • James Elliott
  • James F. McIntyre
  • James F. Whittredge
  • James Flint
  • James Flint Whittredge
  • James H. Hart
  • James Hilton Good-bye Mr. Chips
  • James Joyce
  • James Joyce "Daniel Defoe"
  • James Joyce "Daniele Defoe"
  • James Joyce Araby
  • James Joyce Finnegans Wake
  • James Joyce on Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year
  • James Joyce Ulysses
  • James Joyce was a genius of literature and language. His novels can also leave the reader feeling emotionally empty. His characters are mythological stand ins types. We peer into their minds but they
  • James McIntyre
  • James McWilliams
  • James Michael Curley
  • James Otis Toby Tyler
  • James Perrin Warren
  • James Perrin Warren Walt Whitman's Language Experiment
  • James Redpath
  • James Redpath The Public Life of Capt. John Brown with an Auto-Biography of His Childhood and Youth
  • James Sambrook Introduction to Thomson The Seasons
  • James Smith
  • James T. Farrell
  • James T. Farrell Studs Lonigan
  • James T. Farrell Twain's 'Huckleberry Finn and the Era He Lived In The New York Times Book Review December 12
  • James Thomson
  • James Thomson Autumn
  • James Thomson Spring
  • James Thomson The Seasons
  • James W. Bashford
  • James Whittredge
  • Janay Manning
  • Jan Breland
  • Jan DeGaetani
  • Jane Austin Pride and Prejudice
  • Jane Brody
  • Jane Brookfield
  • Jane E. Brody
  • Jane Fonda
  • Jane Garside
  • Jane Gilchrist
  • Jane Gilchrist Smith
  • Jane Jacobs
  • Jane Jacobs The Death and Life of Great American Citiies
  • Jane Smith
  • Jane Stuart Woolsey
  • Janet Funke
  • Janet James
  • Janette Sadik-Kahn
  • Jane Uhrich
  • Janice Gewirtz
  • Jan Lannering
  • Jan Swafford
  • Jason Goodwin Introduction A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe
  • Jason Robards
  • Jealousy is the hardest of the human emotions to overcome.
  • Jean-Pierre Rampal
  • Jean de Brunhoff Babar the Elephant
  • Jean de Brébeuf
  • Jean E. Smith
  • Jeanette Bertrand
  • Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz
  • Jeanne Daley
  • Jean Nichols
  • Jean Renoir
  • Jean Renoir The River
  • Jean Rhys
  • Jean Sibelius
  • Jean Sibelius "Souvenir"
  • Jean Sibelius “Kullervo”
  • Jeff Denham
  • Jefferson Davis
  • Jeffrey A. Lieberman
  • Jeff Sessions
  • Jennie.S
  • Jennie H. Wright
  • Jennie Houston Wright
  • Jennie L. Pounder
  • Jennie Pounder
  • Jennie Simpson
  • Jennie Smith
  • Jennie Wright
  • Jeremiah Moulton
  • Jeremy Irons
  • Jeremy Sage
  • Jeremy Wyndham Deedes
  • Jerry Cummings
  • Jesse Green
  • Jesus Garcia
  • Jim Brosnan The Long Season
  • Jim Dwyer
  • Jim Dwyer “The Doctor Came to Save Lives. The Co-op Board Told Him to Get Lost.”
  • Jimmy Breslin
  • Jimmy Piersall
  • Jimmy Piersall Fear Strikes Out
  • Joachim Gaehde
  • Joan Didion
  • Joan Didion Farwell to the Enchanted City
  • Joan Didion Goodbye to All That
  • Joane Swift
  • Joanne Meade Canton High School
  • Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera
  • Joaquín Guzmán Loera
  • Joe Biden
  • Joel F. Harrington Dangerous Mystic: Meister Eckhart's Path to the God Within
  • Joel Moulton
  • Joe Williams
  • Johan Ludvig Runeberg
  • Johann Caspar Lavater
  • Johannes Brahms
  • Johannes Brahms. Brahms Symphony No. 4 in E minor
  • Johann Pachelbel
  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Maximen und Reflexionen
  • John A. Hart
  • John Addington Symonds
  • John Albro
  • John Andrew Hart
  • John Aubrey
  • John Bash
  • John Bosanquet
  • John Brown
  • John C. Calhoun
  • John C. Coffee Jr.
  • John C. Hart
  • John Calhoun
  • John Cheever
  • John Coffee
  • John Congdon
  • John Congdon Hart
  • John Cooke
  • John Dalzell
  • John Dana Ferris
  • John Dana Ferris MD
  • John Donne A Valedection Forbidding Mourning
  • John Donne A Valediction Forbidding Mourning
  • John Donne MEDITATION XVII Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions and severall steps in my Sicknes. No man is an island
  • John Dowland
  • John Dowland songs from the “Second Book of Songs or Ayres”
  • John Dryden
  • John Dryden Alexander's Feast or the Power of Music
  • John E. Malmstad
  • John Ellis
  • John F. Kelly
  • John Ferris
  • John Ferris MD
  • John Fitzgerald
  • John Gielgud
  • John Gilchrist
  • John Gottlieb
  • John H. Congdon
  • John H. Nichols
  • John Harris
  • John Havlicek
  • John Hersey Hiroshima
  • John Howard Congdon
  • John J. Judge Canton High School
  • John J. McAleer
  • John Judge
  • John Keats
  • John Keats On First Looking into Chapman's Homer
  • John Keats To Autumn
  • John Kelly
  • John L. Hess
  • John Leland
  • John M. Coffee
  • John M. Coffee Jr.
  • John M. Mandrola
  • John M. Wyatt
  • John Macomber
  • John McAleer
  • John Milton
  • John Milton L'Allegro
  • John Milton Paradise Lost
  • John Milton Samson Agonistes
  • John Muir
  • John Nichols
  • Johnny Most
  • John O'Connell
  • John P. Horigan
  • John Patrdidge
  • John Pitman Taylor
  • John Sharpe
  • John Smith
  • Johnson was witty and quotable; he had a penetrating intellect. But one gets to know him a lot better from his various and voluminous output as a writer.
  • John Stanislaus Joyce
  • John Steinbeck
  • John Steinbeck The Red Pony
  • John Stuart Mill
  • John Swinton
  • John Tillotson
  • John Townsend Trowbridge
  • John Townsend Trowbridge My Own Story: Recollections of Noted Persons
  • John Townsend Trowbridge Recollections of Emerson and Alcott
  • John Tripp Canton High School
  • John Updike
  • John Zimmerman
  • Jolle Greenleaf
  • Jonathan Eig
  • Jonathan Swift
  • Jonathan Swift A Description of a City Shower
  • Jonathan Swift A Description of the Morning
  • Jonathan Swift Gulliver’s Travels
  • Jonathan Swift on lawyers
  • Jonathan Swift Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver First a Surgeon and then a Captain of Several Ships
  • Jon Cruz
  • Joon H. Kim
  • Jordan Marsh Boston
  • Jorge Garcia
  • Jose Eustasio Rivera
  • Joseph Addison
  • Joseph Allen
  • Joseph Chihwatenhwa
  • Joseph Congdon
  • Joseph Epstein
  • Joseph Fowke
  • Joseph Haydn
  • Joseph J. Fraser
  • Joseph James Fraser
  • Joseph Moulton
  • Joseph P. Donnelly Thwaites' Jesuit Relations: Errata and Addenda
  • Joseph R. Biden
  • Joseph R. Biden Jr.
  • Joshua Handy
  • Joshua L. Handy
  • Joshua Lewis Handy
  • Joshua Prawer
  • Josquin des Prez Ave Christe Immolate
  • José Ferrer
  • Joyce Defoe lecture Trieste
  • Jr.
  • Juan Ramón Jiménez
  • Juan Ramón Jiménez (Spanish poet)
  • Juan Ramón Jiménez Platero and I
  • Juan Ramón Jiménez Platero y yo
  • Juan Ramón Jiménez Platero y yo audiobook
  • Juan Ramón Jiménez reading his poetry in Spanish
  • Juan Ramón Jiménez Ronsard
  • Judge Dolly Gee
  • Judge Dolly M. Gee
  • Judge Jan Breland
  • Judge Tammy Kemp
  • Judge Valerie Caproni
  • Judge Wendy Demchick-Alloy
  • Judith Clark
  • Judith Colp Rubin
  • Judy Johnson Canton High School
  • Julie Eldred
  • June Casagrande
  • Juniper Valley Park
  • Juniper Valley Park Middle Village
  • Juniper Valley Park Middle Village Queens NY
  • Justice in Motion
  • Kalevala
  • Karen Russell
  • Karlis Auzans
  • Karlis Auzans “Under the Sun” - Variation 2
  • Kate Bowler
  • Kate Bowler "Everything Happens for a Reason"
  • Katherine A. Price
  • Katherine Calhoun
  • Katherine P.
  • Katherine P. Calhoun
  • Katherine Price
  • Katherine Price Calhoun
  • Kathleen Bailey Canton High School
  • Kathleen Kane
  • Kathleen Parker
  • Kathy Phair
  • Kathy Phair Harvard Massachusetts
  • Kathy Phair Liberal Religious Youth
  • Kathy Phair LRY
  • Katie Peeler MD
  • kCC
  • Keats "Ode to the West Wind"
  • Keep the Aphrodista Flying
  • Keith Johnson
  • Keith Newlin Hamlin Garland: A Life
  • Kellyanne Conway
  • Ken Burns Hemingway
  • Kenneth Burke
  • Kenneth Oles Canton High School football team
  • Kenneth Patton
  • Kenneth T. Jackson
  • Kenneth Wolfe
  • Kenny Oles Canton High School football team
  • Kevin McLeennan
  • Kevin R. Steele
  • Khaalid Walls. Jan Brady
  • King Lear
  • Kirk Douglas
  • Kirstjen Nielsen
  • Kiyo A. Matsumoto
  • Knut Hamsun
  • Konstantin Balmont
  • Korney Ivanovich Chukovsky
  • Korolek Ptichka Pevchaja. C Halykushu Reşat Nuri Güntekin
  • Korolek Ptichka Pevchaja Reşat Nuri Güntekin
  • Kurt Vonnegut
  • Kurt Vonnegut Cat's Cradle
  • L. E. Sissman
  • L:ove Handy
  • Laban Thatcher
  • La Conception mission Ossossane Ontario Canada
  • Lady Chatterly's Lover
  • language police
  • language policing
  • Larkie Colebrooke
  • Larry Jaffa
  • Larry Moffi
  • Larry Nassar
  • Laurence Olivier
  • Lavater Aphorisms on man
  • Lawrence Durrell
  • Lawrence G. Nassar
  • Lawrence Gerard Nassar
  • Lawrence Henry Gipson The British Empire Before the American Revolution
  • Lawrence Jaffa
  • Lawrence S. Bacow
  • lazy eye
  • Leaves of Grass
  • Leaves of Grass has become a sort of Bible for me.
  • Leaves of Grass works splendidly from a micro view especially at the level of words often common plain ones used ingeniously.
  • Leave the little children be and do not prevent them from coming to me; for such is the Kingdom of thee heavens.
  • Lee Bollinger
  • Lee Gelernt
  • left vs. right brainedness; and CREATIVITY
  • Lelsey Gore You Don't Own Me
  • Lenin
  • Leningrad
  • Lenny Singleton
  • Leo Durocher
  • Leonard Bernstein
  • Leon Hopper
  • Leo Tolstoy
  • Leo Tolstoy and wife; photo and portraits
  • Leo Tolstoy Anna Karenina
  • Leo Tolstoy Resurrection
  • Leo Tolstoy still spring was spring
  • Leo Tolstoy War and Peace; First Epilogue
  • Les Miserables (musical)
  • Les Misérables
  • Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.
  • Levin C. Bailey
  • Lewinsky scandal
  • Lewis Handy
  • Lewis Henry Morgan
  • Lewis Henry Morgan League of the Ho-dé-no-sau-nee Iroquois. Iroquois language
  • Lewis Henry Morgan on the language of the Iroquois
  • Lewis Mumford
  • Lewis Paul Todd and Merle Curti Rise of the American Nation
  • Liberal Religious Youth
  • Liberal Religious Youth (LRY)
  • Lilian W. Freeman
  • limerick written by Roger W. Smith
  • Lin-Manuel Miranda
  • Lincoln Center
  • Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
  • Lincoln Center for the Performing Ats
  • Linda Bandt
  • Linda Castellarin
  • Linnuke Reşat Nuri Güntekin
  • Lionel Shriver
  • Lisa Handy
  • Lisa M. Schwartz
  • Liszt piano transcription Schubert "Wasserflut”
  • Little Black Sambo
  • Little Pictures of Japan edited by Olive Beaupré Miller
  • Livermore Whittredge
  • Livermore Whittredge Jr.
  • Lizabeth Cohen
  • Lizbeth Cohen Saving America’s Cities: Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban Age
  • Liz Tighe
  • Llewelly Hewins
  • Llewellyn Hewins
  • Llewellyn R. Hewins
  • Llewellyn Russell Hewins
  • lock jawed by ideology (thoughts about the Biden allegations)
  • Loie Ryder
  • Lois Bryant
  • Lois Bryantg
  • Lois Bryant Hart
  • Lois Hart
  • loneliness
  • Loose verbiage is not a hallmark of good writing
  • Lope de Vega
  • Lord & Taylor
  • Lord & Taylor department store
  • Lord & Taylor New York
  • Lord and Taylor;s New York
  • Loretta Ciani
  • Lorna Laughland
  • Lou Harrison
  • Louis (Bill) Honig Bill Honig
  • Louisa May Alcott
  • Louisa May Alcott Hospital Sketches
  • Louisa May Alcott Little Women
  • Louisa May Alcott Moods
  • Louisa May Alcott Work: A Story of Experience
  • Louise Day Hicks
  • Louise May Alcott
  • Love Handy
  • Love Hewins
  • Love Swain
  • Love Swain Handy
  • loving one’s neighbor
  • Lowell Thomas
  • LRY
  • Lt. John Ellis
  • Lt. John Ellis Sandwich MA
  • Lt. Livermore Whittredge
  • Lt. Mordecai Ellis
  • Luanne Castle
  • Luciana Ames
  • Luciana de Ames
  • Lucinda H. Hart
  • Lucinda Haskell
  • Lucinda Haskell Hart
  • Lucinda M. Haskell
  • Lucy Congdon
  • Lucy Hart
  • Lucy Randall
  • Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Luke 6:31
  • Luke 15:1-2
  • Lydia C. Hart
  • Lydia C. Shaw
  • Lydia Congdon
  • Lydia Congdon Hart
  • Lydia Congdon Shaw
  • Lydia Congdon Shaw Hart
  • Lydia E
  • Lydia Ellis
  • Lydia Ellis Handy
  • Lydia Handy
  • Lydia Herrick
  • Lydia P. Ellis
  • Lydia P. Handy
  • Lydia Perkins Ellis
  • Lydia Shaw
  • Lynne Cheney
  • Lynwood Thomas "Schoolboy" Rowe
  • Lynwood Thomas Rowe
  • Lyrics of the French Renaissance: Marot Du Bellay Ronsard English versions by Norman R. Shapiro (Yale University Press 2002)
  • MA
  • Mack Williams
  • Maggie Walker
  • Maimonides
  • Maimonides "Guide for the Perplexed"
  • Make time for your friends; create space in the interstices of your life for them to fit into.
  • Maki Namekawa
  • Malcolm Melville
  • Manhattan Indian village
  • Manhattan is such a walkable city.
  • Manny Ramirez
  • Manon Clément
  • Many commentators are extolling and advising us upon the glories of things such as virtual gatherings and parties; interacting remotely; working with colleagues and attending concerts and cultural eve
  • Many modern day kids raised in “enlightened” “progressive” households don’t have the faintest knowledge of religious teachings or the Bible.
  • Many of Whitman’s images are elliptical. Partly precise and specific
  • Many viruses like flu measles and norovirus thrive in cold dry air.
  • Mara Williams Oakes
  • Marcel Proust
  • Marcia Fukui
  • Marco Rubio
  • Margaret H. Handy
  • Margaret H. Wright
  • Margaret Handy
  • Margaret Houston
  • Margaret Macomber Cornell
  • Margaret Macomer
  • Margaret Renkl
  • Margaret Wright
  • Marguerite Tjader
  • Maria L. Baldwin School Cambridge MA
  • Maria Prinz
  • Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco Platero and I
  • Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco Platero y yo
  • Marion H. Hart
  • Marion Hewins Hart
  • Marion Lawrence
  • Marjorie Farrar
  • Marjorie H. Smith
  • Marjorie Houston Smith
  • Marjorie New
  • Marjorie New Macomber
  • Marjorie S. Farrar
  • Mark Handy
  • Mark Harris
  • Mark Harris The Southpaw
  • Mark Meadows
  • Mark Schmitz
  • Mark Shields
  • Mark Twain
  • Mark Twain Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
  • Mark Twain Huckleberry Finn
  • Mark Walker
  • Martha Chickering
  • Martha Peverly
  • Mart Hart Flint
  • Martin A. Lindsay
  • Martin Alexander Lindsay
  • Martin J. Badoian
  • Martin Lindsay
  • Martin Luther King
  • Martin Luther King Jr.
  • Martin Luther King Jr. was an idealist. Sadly his ideals are regarded as passé today.
  • Martin Shkreli
  • Martin Shrekli
  • Mary A. Livermore
  • Mary Beth Norton
  • Mary Buntin
  • Mary Carleton
  • Mary Dounton
  • Mary F. Haskell
  • Mary Gadge
  • Mary Gilchrist
  • Mary Hart
  • Mary Haskell Adams
  • Mary Jordan
  • Mary L. Trump
  • Mary Lou Stocker
  • Mary Macomber
  • Mary Macomber Turner
  • Mary Norris
  • Mary Shelley Frankenstein
  • Mary Shelley Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus
  • Mary Shepherd
  • Mary T. Congdon
  • Mary Taber Congdon
  • Mary Trump
  • Mason Locke Weems
  • Mathew Albence
  • Matthew 6:1
  • Matthew 7:12
  • Matthew 8:1-20
  • Matthew Williams
  • Maureen Dowd
  • Maurice C. Carroll
  • Maurice Camillus Carroll
  • Maurice Carroll
  • Maurizio Pollini
  • Max Frankel
  • Max Neuberger
  • Max Schur
  • May 28 2020
  • Maya Schenwar
  • Maya Schenwar on the cruelties perpetuated by the criminal “justice” system
  • Maya Zlobina “Koestler's Version: The book and the life” Novy mir No 2 (1989)
  • Mayor George Shinn
  • Mayor Shinn
  • Mazputniņš Rešāds Nurī Gintekīns
  • McLaren Harris
  • Megan McArdle
  • Meghan Markle
  • Meister Eckhart
  • Meister Eckhart Predigt Dreizehn (Sermon Thirteen) (a)
  • Melania Trump
  • Melissa McQuillan
  • Memoirs of Hecate County
  • Memories of the past make us who we are today.
  • Men of good will is not a “generic” phrase. It means something. To men (yes men) of good will.
  • Mercy Buffum
  • Mercy Congdon
  • Mercy T. Buffum
  • Mervyn Johns
  • Meryl Streep
  • Metropolitan Detention Center Brooklyn
  • Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Metropolitan Museum of Art New York
  • Mexico–United States barrier
  • Michael Cohen
  • Michael D. Cohen
  • Michael Kimmelman
  • Michael Longley
  • Michael Lydon
  • Michail Lifits
  • Michel de Montaigne
  • Michelle Goldberg
  • Michelle Vavrick
  • Mickey Carroll
  • Mid-Winter Conference 1963 Goddard College
  • migrant children
  • migrant children and PTSD
  • migrant children in cages
  • Mike Pence
  • Mikhail Gorbachev
  • Mikhail Lermontov
  • Mikhail Lermontov “Vykhozhu odin ya na dorogu” (Alone I set out on the road)
  • Milton Samson Agonistes
  • Mimi Hernandez
  • Minh Quang Pham
  • Minnie E. Hart
  • Minnie Eveline Hart
  • Mitsuko Uchida
  • Mme. Vauquer’s boarding house is a microcosm of society. She and she and the others is a character only a Balzac or a Charles Dickens could create.
  • Moby-Dick
  • Moby-Dick; or The Whale
  • Moby-Dick is such an American book -- could have only been written here.
  • modern medicine
  • Modest Mussorgsky
  • Mogens Wöldike
  • Molly McMahon
  • Molly Worthen The Trouble With Empathy: Can we really be taught to feel each other’s pain? The New York Times
  • Monsieur Thénardier
  • Montaigne
  • Monteverdi Deposuit potentes
  • Monteverdi Magnificat
  • Monteverdi Vespers 1610
  • Monteverdi Vespers of 1610
  • Moral codes do work to make society “work” so to speak -- the way rules in an athletic contest do -- to ensure a certain degree of “fair play” “decency” and harmony in human interactions a
  • more consolatory music for this time of pandemic
  • Morley Roberts The Private Life of Henry Maitland
  • Morniing Star whaling vessel
  • Morning Star bark
  • Morning Star ship
  • Morning Stg
  • morphology fascinates me
  • Moses Swett
  • Most people I would guess think college is everything. The school one attends what one majors in. This is not quite true.
  • Mother's Day
  • mothers (and babies) in prison
  • mothers separated from nursing children
  • Moulton family
  • Mozart "Maurerische Trauermusik" Masonic Funeral Music K. 477
  • Mozart 3 German Dances
  • Mozart Agnus Dei Missa Brevis in F K. 192
  • Mozart Ave verum corpus K. 618
  • Mozart Dixit and Magnificat K. 193
  • Mozart Great Mass in C K. 427
  • Mozart Lacrimosa Requiem Mass K. 626
  • Mozart Laudamus Te Great Mass K. 427
  • Mozart Masconic Funeral Music
  • Mozart Masonic Funeral Music
  • Mozart Masonic Funeral Music K. 477
  • Mozart Masonic Funreral Music
  • Mozart Masonic music
  • Mozart Masonic Peter Maag
  • Mozart Mass in F minor K. 192
  • Mozart Maurerische Trauermusik
  • Mozart Maurerische Trauermusik K. 477
  • Mozart Requiem
  • Mozart Symphony No. 41 in C major
  • Mozart Symphony No 40 in G Minor
  • Mozart’s Maurerische Trauermusik
  • Mozart’s Sinfonia concertante
  • Mozart “Jupiter” Symphony
  • Mrs. Ralph E. Handy
  • Mrs Minever
  • Ms. Cooper did not handle the situation well. But this was as the police noted basically an argument.
  • Ms. Cooper should NOT have been fired. Franklin Templeton fired her not because they CARE -- it's a public relations (read bottom line) issue for them.
  • MTA New York City Transit
  • Much of what is done by social engineers and reformers – supposedly for amelioration of conditions of the oppressed – actually is done with the most mean spirited intentions one can conceive of an
  • Mueller probe
  • Museum of Modern Art New York
  • Music distills packages and holds emotion.
  • Music energizes and jostles the mind.
  • music from Pasolini’s The Gospel According to St. Matthew
  • Music’s melodies and harmonies enchant at this moment and always. But at the same time -- vibration sound shaking the hall so to speak affects the listener with an immediacy only a live performance
  • Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition original piano version
  • Muzzey American History
  • my dogs
  • My father a WWII veteran bought the rationale for the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
  • My favorite activity on Saturdays is to play baseball with my sons and their friends on a playground in Queens.
  • my favorite Carl Nielsen songs
  • my favorite Nielsen songs
  • My great-grandfather Thomas Smith Jr. was born on April 13 1861 at 22 James St. in Glasgow Scotland. He was the oldest surviving child of Thomas and Jane (Gilchrist) Smith.
  • My high school English teacher was once asked by a student how long should a paper be? As long as required to cover the subject he replied. No more and no less.
  • my irritation got the best of me
  • My ongoing “diary” of words looked up during the past year. It shows that new vocabulary is acquired solely by READING.
  • My parents always spoke in complete sentences.
  • My parents feigned being advanced when it came to any sex issues but but actually the thought of having to deal with sexual issues or sexual behavior by their children terrified them.
  • my personal library of works by Walt Whitman and books about him
  • my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer Dr. John Trump at M.I.T.; good genes very good genes O.K. very smart the Wharton School of finance very good very smart
  • N. S. Sergieva
  • Nancy L. Smith
  • Nancy L. Smith.Nancy Lee Smith
  • Nancy Lee Smith
  • Natalia S. Sergieva
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Nathaniel Hawthrone
  • Nathaniel Philbrick
  • National Council for the Social Studies
  • National League late 1800s
  • Ned Wilkins
  • Neel Kashkari
  • Negro worker lynched for demanding pay Southern Worker December 12 1931
  • NERC
  • netting in baseball stadiums
  • New Bedford Anti-Slavery Society
  • Newburgh Hamilton
  • New England Regional Committe (NERC)
  • New England Regional Committee
  • New England Regional Committee (NERC)
  • New England Regional Committee of Liberal Religious Youth
  • new English translation
  • new site: Roger’s rhetoric
  • Newspaper stories are saying that the Coronavirus epidemic has already caused some people to abandon cities like my own beloved New York.
  • Newspeak
  • Newton Arvin
  • new vocabulary is acquired solely by reading
  • New York as I knew it.
  • New York City; advice for a first time visitor
  • New York City Department of Transportation
  • New York City has commissioned a 370 thousand dollar engineering study of the bridge’s walking and biking promenade to address crowding.
  • New York City in the 1950’s was at its zenith an exciting livable (and affordable) place.
  • New York City Transit
  • New Yorkers may be itching to hang out together in New York City’s parks.” The New York Times
  • New York Friends Group
  • New York Harbor
  • New York is indeed a world-class walking city.
  • New York Public Library
  • New York Public Library Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
  • New York Public Radio
  • New York sunlight (and New York joys)
  • New York Times
  • New York Times copy desk
  • New York Times Editorial Board
  • New York Yankees
  • New York’s Sidewalks Are So Packed Pedestrians Are Taking to the Streets
  • Nicholas Kristof
  • Nicholas Kristoff
  • Nikolai Gogol
  • Nikolay Andreyev Introduction Tolstoy Master and Man
  • Nina Burnham Raymond
  • Ninan B. Raymond
  • No argument can stand on its own without support
  • Noel Kashkari
  • No mockery in the world is so hollow as the advice showered upon the sick. Florence Nightingale
  • No one can handle a sentence nowadays.
  • No one should be punished more that is necessary.
  • No person is beyond redemption.
  • Norfolk-Suffolk Federation
  • Norfolk-Suffolk Federation newsletters Liberal Religious Youth (LRY) 1962-1964
  • Norman F. Canton
  • Norman F. Cantor
  • Norman Frank Cantor
  • Norman Mailer
  • Norma Schank Daley
  • Norridgewock
  • Norridgewock Maine
  • North Church Congregational Cambridge MA
  • North Korea
  • North River
  • No Sir when a man is tired of London he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
  • No summons mocked by chill delay / No petty gain disdained by pride / The modest wants of every day / The toil of every day supplied.
  • Notre-Dame Cathedral
  • Notre-Dame de Paris
  • Noura Erakat
  • Nurernberg trials
  • NYC and Manhattan are depressing -- not the same city
  • NYC encourages conversation (a photo-essay)
  • Oak Crest Inn Falmouth Heights
  • Oak Crest Inn Falmouth Heights MA
  • Objectivity and balance are often desirable; but not at the cost of dullness
  • Obscurely wise and coarsely kind; / Nor lettered Arrogance deny / Thy praise to merit unrefined.
  • Odetta “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child”
  • of daily life
  • Oh For A Lodge In Some Warm Wilderness! The Cry of Many a New-Yorker Whose Business Worries are Aggravated by a Bad Cold. New-York Tribune February 21 1904
  • Olaf Caroe
  • Olaf K. Caroe
  • Olaf Kirpatrick Caroe
  • Olive Beaupré Miller Nursery Friends from France
  • Oliver Goldsmith
  • on aesthetic and cultural appreciation of literature and film; my favorite directors (小津安二郎は日本の映画監督・脚本家)
  • on caring for sick people (and why the health care system often fails them) … plus what I have learned about same from experience and reading; and from Walt Whitman Florence Nightingale and the hero
  • One can do it (walking) even when one is out of shape and it won’t put undue stress on the body.
  • One causal or underlying factor for ambiguity in thought seems to be entertaining or coming face to face with contentious issues.
  • One causal or underlying factor for ambiguity in thought seems to be entertaining or coming face to face with contentious issues. It appears that this may be in part because there are no good answers.
  • One reason there was such a meeting of minds -- a fusion -- with my therapist Dr. Colp -- he called it the X factor -- was similarities in our relationships with our fathers.
  • on happiness vis-à-vis sadness
  • on happiness vis-à-vis sadness (and the other way around)
  • on our journey through it.
  • opposition by religious leaders to family separation
  • Orie O. Miller
  • Origins of the Whittredge family (William Whittred emigrated 1635)
  • Orlando di Lasso Cum Essem Parvulus
  • Orlando di Lasso Factus Est Dominus
  • Orlando di Lasso Nunc Cognosco
  • Orlando Gibb
  • Orlando Gibbons The Cries of London
  • or take away from it
  • or the Wren
  • Oscar Wilde The Selfish Giant
  • Otto Jespersen
  • Our life histories -- indeed our personalities -- are a “compost” of all the people we have been privileged to become acquainted with.
  • Over-influence. Parental over-influence. During their children’s development years. Has this been studied and written about by psychologists?
  • P. A. Sorokin
  • P.A.ソローキン. 索羅金=索罗金
  • P.S. 85 Brooklyn
  • Pachelbel Canon
  • Pachelbel harpsichord suites
  • painting of Samuel Johnson by Sir Joshua Reynolds
  • Palestinian mass uprising
  • Pamela McPherson MD
  • Pamela Moses
  • Panics disasters and emergencies bring out all kinds of reactions and behaviors in people.
  • Panics disasters and emergencies bring out all kinds of reactions and behaviors in people. Good and bad. The best and the worst. Selfish and altruistic. Noble and petty.
  • parental over-influence during their children’s development years
  • parenting
  • Parents must let kids be kids. Not proto adults or achievers in residence. Not paradigms. Just goofy loveable inchoate little people. Soon to grow up on their own schedule and in their own way.
  • Parker Bright
  • Parson Weems
  • partly general.
  • Pasolini Il vangelo secondo Matteo
  • Pasoli The Gospel According to St. Matthew
  • Pasquale Jannaccone
  • Patience Brewster
  • Patience Prence
  • Patrice Pétillot
  • Patricia Terry
  • Patty Ha
  • Patty Harmon
  • Paul Alexander
  • Paul Bäumer
  • Paul Campion
  • Paul Delany
  • Paul Doolittle
  • Paul Dresser
  • Paul Ford
  • Paul Goodman
  • Paul Goodman Growing Up Absurd
  • Paul H. Tedesco
  • Paul Herget
  • Paul Hindemith
  • Paul Hindemith “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd: A Requiem for those we love”
  • Paul Husted
  • Paul Klotzle
  • Paul Krugman
  • Paul Le Jeune
  • Paul Manafort
  • Paul Soglin
  • Paul Tedesco
  • Paul Tedesco Canton High School
  • Paul Tinkham
  • Paul Valéry
  • Peace Cross Bladensburg MD
  • pedestrian traffic
  • pedestrian traffic enginneers
  • Pee Wee Reese
  • People are not only entitled to think for themselves — they should. Using their intuition life experience insight and common sense. Without having to wear an ideological straightjacket.
  • People need closeness to people just as they do sunlight and oxygen.
  • People often assert that stories are true when they are not when they did not actually happen.
  • Perfect health is the right relation to nature. Walt Whitman
  • Perfectionism can suck the juice out a novel.
  • Pergolesi Stabat Mater
  • Pergolisi "Stabat Mater Dolorosa"
  • Perhaps that’s enough to say. I am not a preacher and don’t want to be seen as coming across as one. But I do think that religions play an important psychological function or more broadly an edify
  • perrera
  • Pete Hamill
  • Peter Baldwin
  • Peter Diamandeopoulos
  • Peter Ganick
  • Peter Minuit
  • Peter S. Smith
  • Peter Salovey
  • Peter Skirving Smith
  • Pete Smith
  • Petrograd
  • Pfaff's beer cellar
  • Phebe Coffin
  • Phebe Congdon
  • Phebe Ellis
  • Phebe Etta Ellis
  • Philander Castile
  • Philip F. Gura
  • Philip Glass
  • Philip Glass Koyaanisqatsi: Life Out of Balance
  • Philip Glass Metamorphosis Two
  • Philip Glass piano
  • Philip Glass Satyagraha
  • Philip Glass string quartet no. 4
  • Philip Glass string quartet no. 4 ("Buczak")
  • Philip J. Pierce
  • Philip Kennicott
  • Philip Pierce
  • Philip Rosseter
  • Phil Phillips Sea of Love (1959)
  • Phil Pierce
  • Phil Taylor
  • Phineas T. Bluster
  • phony cheerfulness
  • photograph of Henry Miller
  • piano transcriptions of Beethoven symphonies
  • Pieces I know well sound new and fresh when I hear them performed live for the first time.
  • Pier Paolo Pasolini
  • Pier Parolo Pasolini
  • Pierre Coustillas
  • Pierre de Ronsard
  • Pippa Passes
  • Pitirim A. Sorokin
  • Pitirim A. Sorokin "The Bard of Life" Vseobshchiy Zhurnal 2 1912
  • Pitirim A. Sorokin Leaves from a Russian Diary
  • Pitirim A. Sorokin Man and Society in Calamity
  • Pitirim A. Sorokin on human emotions in a time of plague
  • Pitirim A. Sorokin Social Mobility
  • Pitirim A. Sorokin The Sociology of Revolution
  • Pitirim Aleksandrovich Sorokin
  • Pitirim Sorokin
  • Pitirim Sorokin The Present State of Russia
  • Pitulicea Reşat Nuri Güntekin
  • Platero and I
  • Platero y yo
  • Platero y Yo XLVIII Ronsard
  • pleonasm
  • pleonastic word pairs
  • Plessy v. Ferguson
  • Pliny B. Handy
  • Pliny Brett Handy
  • Pocasset
  • Pocasset MA
  • Poems of the Elder Edda translated by Patricia Terry
  • political correctness (PC)
  • political invective
  • Polo Grounds
  • Pope Francis
  • Pope John XXIII
  • Porgy and Bess
  • Porgy and Bess original soundtrack
  • portait of Walt Whitman
  • portrait of Juan Ramón Jiménez
  • portraits of Samuel Johson and His Circle
  • preadolescence
  • Preadolescent friendships also gave me the opportunity to set up another alternative “belief system” different from that of my parents to be able to look at things differently to perhaps overcome
  • Pregnant women cried for help.
  • President-Elect Biden needs “permission” to pick a white man for attorney general? Isn’t that racism?
  • President Obama had child separation. Take a look. The press knows it you know it we all know it. I didn’t have — I’m the one that stopped it.
  • Priscilla Marotta
  • prisons Oklahoma
  • prisons Tulsa Oklahoma
  • Prokofiev Alexander Nevsky
  • Prokofiev Ten Pieces from Romeo and Juliet
  • prosateur
  • prosateur (prose writer)
  • proverbs from Roger’s writing lair
  • proverbs from Roger’s writing lair (with a nod to Blake’s “Proverbs of Hell”)
  • Proxima b
  • psychological/health effects of separating children
  • publications - Roger W. Smith
  • Punctuation should not be dispensed with merely for the sake of convenience
  • Punishment is often inflicted for the sake of punishing. It does no good.
  • Purcell Come If You Dare from King Arthur
  • Purcell Dido and Aeneas
  • Purcell “The Fairy-Queen”
  • Purcell “When I Am Laid In My Grave”
  • Pushkin
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  • qualifiers are not necessarily bad
  • qualifiers such as as it were and so to speak can often serve a purpose
  • Quiet Days in Clichy
  • R. A. D. Forrest
  • R. A. D. Forrest The Chinese Language
  • R. Vashon Rogers The Jesuit Relations Queen’s Quarterly April 1898
  • Rabbi Isidor B. Hoffman
  • Ralph Colp. Jr.
  • Ralph Colp Jr.
  • Ralph Colp Jr. Bitter Christmas: A Biographical Inquiry into the Life of Bartolomeo Vanzetti"
  • Ralph Colp Jr. MD
  • Ralph Colp Jr. Sacco’s Struggle for Sanity
  • Ralph Colp[ Jr. MD
  • Ralph E
  • Ralph E. Handy
  • Ralph E. Handy Roger Henry Handy
  • Ralph Ellis Handy
  • Ralph Hand
  • Ralph Handy
  • Ralph Lauren
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams "A Sea Symphony"
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson "On Being Asked Whence Is the Flower?"
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson "The Poet'
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson. Roger Smith
  • Raymond Bonner
  • Raymond F. Faarrar
  • Raymond Farrar
  • Raymond Francis Farrar
  • Raymond Hood
  • Raymond Vegso
  • Reading Theodore Dreiser’s work has been likened to finding a very powerful Russian novel in a really bad translation. Tone-deaf works of fiction rarely achieve lift-off. Exquisite sentences make fo
  • Reckgawawanc Indians
  • Red Barber
  • Red Smith
  • regarding Professor Strunk’s admonition “Omit Needless Words.” (or are long complex sentences bad?)
  • regarding the cardinal sin of dishonesty
  • Regina Burk
  • Regina Iannazzi
  • Regina M. Burk
  • relation of Jérôme Lalemant S.J. May 19 1941
  • Relations des Jésuites de la Nouvelle-France
  • Repetition can be effective
  • Reuben Ainsztein
  • Reuben Gold Thwaites
  • reuniting migrant families
  • Rev. A. Paul Gallivan
  • Rev. Alfred Fowlie
  • Rev. Allred Fowlie
  • Rev. Al Sharpton
  • Rev. Jacques Andre DeGraff
  • Rev. John M. Coffee Jr.
  • Rev. Paul Gallivan
  • Rev. Serene Jones
  • Rev. William DeWolfe
  • Rev. William H. Nicolas North Church Congregational
  • Rev. William R. Moors
  • Reverence for Life
  • Reverend Paul Gallivan
  • Reşat Nuri Güntekin
  • Ricardo Florit
  • Ricardo Millett
  • Richard A. Lanham
  • Richard Anthony Leonard
  • Richard Derby
  • Richard Derry
  • Richard Ellmann
  • Richard H. Shyrock
  • Richard Haliburton The Flying Carpet
  • Richard Handy
  • Richard Herrick
  • Richard J. Hinton
  • Richard J. Hinton John Brown and His Men; with Some Account of the Roads They Traveled to Reach Harper's Ferry
  • Richard Johnson The Famous Historie of the Seaven Champions of Christendom
  • Richard Lawrence
  • Richard Nixon
  • Richard Rhodes
  • Richard Warren
  • Rick Corley
  • Rikers Island “the world’s largest penal colony”
  • Rimbaud
  • Rimsky-Korsakov Russian Easter Overture
  • Ring Lardner Alibi Ike
  • Robert A. Caro
  • Robert A. Caro The Power Broker
  • Robert A. Seavey
  • Robert Benchley
  • Robert Blake
  • Robert Bresson
  • Robert Bresson Au Hasard Balthasar
  • Robert Bresson Lancelot du Lac
  • Robert Browning
  • Robert Burns
  • Robert C. Gibson
  • Robert C. Gibson Canton High School
  • Robert Chambers
  • Robert De Niro
  • Robert Dudley
  • Robert E. Lee
  • Robert Fayrfax Maria plena virtute from Seven Last Words from the Cross
  • Robert G. Ingersoll
  • Robert G. Ingersoll Address at the Funeral of Walt Whitman
  • Robert Gibson
  • Robert Gibson Canton High School
  • Robert Gilmore
  • Robert H. Elias
  • Robert Hood
  • Robert J. Lurtsema
  • Robert Kellar
  • Robert Koff
  • Robert Levet”
  • Robert Louis Stevenson Treasure Island
  • Robert McCloskey Make Way for Ducklings
  • Robert Mealy
  • Robert Mitchum
  • Robert Moses
  • Robert Moulton
  • Robert Penn Warren All the Kings Men
  • Robert Preston
  • Robert S. Handy
  • Robert Schumann
  • Robert Seavey
  • Robert Shallow
  • Robert Shevach
  • Robert Simpson
  • Robert Sylvan Handy
  • Robert Tighe
  • Robert Valerio
  • Robert W. Tighe
  • Robert W. Tighe: "Look up a word three times and it's yours."
  • Robert Whitred
  • Robert Whittred
  • Robert Whittred will Colkirk England March 19 1623; cover sheet
  • Robin Givhan
  • Robret Sylvan Handy
  • Rod J. Rosenstein
  • Rod Rosenstein
  • Rogeer Smith
  • Roger's rhetoric
  • Roger's rhetoric (web site)
  • Roger. W. Smith
  • Roger. W. Smith “thoughts about reading”
  • Roger Angell
  • Roger Asselineau
  • Roger Dimbley
  • Roger H. Handy
  • Roger Handy
  • Roger Henry Handy
  • rogers-rhetoric.com
  • Roger Sessions “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd”
  • Roger Smih
  • Roger Smith
  • Roger Smith's New York a new site is now live … it focuses on "the experience and joys of life in New York ... its intellectual and cultural resources; people and places"
  • Roger Smith on his early years
  • Roger Smith Reflections on Work
  • Roger Smith Roger W. Smith
  • Roger Smith student essay on my dog Bambi - in Spanish
  • Roger Smith two journalism school papers
  • Roger Smith’s New York
  • Roger Smth
  • Roger W. Smith
  • Roger W. Smith "Beethoven’s symphonies transcribed for piano"
  • Roger W. Smith "born in exile" (“Some Reflections on the Scholarship of George Gissing”)
  • Roger W. Smith "dirty" books
  • Roger W. Smith "empathy"
  • Roger W. Smith "extreme vetting" of immigrants?
  • Roger W. Smith "In which the question is taken up: When is the desire to be admired not abnormal?"
  • Roger W. Smith "is it possible (or desirable) to hold two divergent opinions at the same time?"
  • Roger W. Smith "Leo Durocher"
  • Roger W. Smith "loving one’s neighbor"
  • Roger W. Smith "mothers (and babies) in prison"
  • Roger W. Smith "My Experience in Liberal Religious Youth (LRY)"
  • Roger W. Smith "my writing; a response to my critics"
  • Roger W. Smith "new site: Roger’s rhetoric"
  • Roger W. Smith "new vocabulary"
  • Roger W. Smith "on aesthetic and cultural appreciation of literature and film; my favorite directors (小津安二郎は日本の映画監督・脚本家)"
  • Roger W. Smith "on autumn (compared to spring) … thoughts of a sage and would be bard"
  • Roger W. Smith "on happiness vis-à-vis sadness (and the other way around)"
  • Roger W. Smith "On the Question of Writing as It Relates to Potentially Sensitive Material on This Blog"
  • Roger W. Smith "on walking (and exercise)"
  • Roger W. Smith "Pitirim Sorokin and the Russian Émigré Community"
  • Roger W. Smith "proverbs from Roger’s writing lair (with a nod to Blake’s 'Proverbs of Hell')"
  • Roger W. Smith "reflections on dealing with lingering resentments"
  • Roger W. Smith "Sharpiegate and Orwell"
  • Roger W. Smith "Take the high road"
  • Roger W. Smith "the assault on 'gendered' words … on our language"
  • Roger W. Smith "Theodore Dreiser"
  • Roger W. Smith "Wesley Branch Rickey"
  • Roger W. Smith "why academic criticism leaves me cold"
  • Roger W. Smith "Why I Like the Game of Baseball"
  • Roger W. Smith "why some op-ed pieces bomb; or should"
  • Roger W. Smith 'my Walt Whitman books"
  • Roger W. Smith 'On Friendships: Forming Preserving and (Sometimes) Knowing When to End Them'
  • Roger W. Smith's Theodore Dreiser site
  • Roger W. Smith's Walt Whitman site
  • Roger W. Smith 'the perpetual (and wonderful) inventiveness of children’s minds"
  • Roger W. Smith 'thoughts about the ocean"
  • Roger W. Smith. The waues come rolling and the billowes rore
  • Roger W. Smith 50th class reunion essay Canton High School Canton MA
  • Roger W. Smith a beautiful church
  • Roger W. Smith A Commentary on Nathaniel Philbrick’s Observations about Moby-Dick
  • Roger W. Smith affirmative action
  • Roger W. Smith After Racist Rage Statues Fall
  • Roger W. Smith a horrible crime (not by the alleged offender)
  • Roger W. Smith a Huron prayer
  • Roger W. Smith a letter from Walt Whitman
  • Roger W. Smith A Manhattan Jaunt
  • Roger W. Smith Anecdotal: Individual Accounts of Migrant Children and Parents Separated by the Trump Administration Since November 2017
  • Roger W. Smith an exchange about political correctness pedagogy and language
  • Roger W. Smith an exchange about Russian American literature
  • Roger W. Smith an exchange re Tolstoy (and some things I learned) ... plus why it pays to keep one’s eye on others’ writing
  • Roger W. Smith Anger Managment 101
  • Roger W. Smith an intellectual adventure
  • Roger W. Smith another concert; thoughts about Bartók
  • Roger W. Smith apologias for censorship
  • Roger W. Smith A Response to the "Cultural Appropriation” Zealots
  • Roger W. Smith articles The Annual Obituary St. Martin's Press
  • Roger W. Smith a scheme to ruin baseball
  • Roger W. Smith A Slap in the Face? Or Reverse Racism?
  • Roger W. Smith a way to avoid death
  • Roger W. Smith Balzac on memory
  • Roger W. Smith bedside manner
  • Roger W. Smith bibliography
  • Roger W. Smith bibliophile
  • Roger W. Smith Broadway musicals
  • Roger W. Smith Brummagem (more thoughts about language policing)
  • Roger W. Smith But I thought people weren't supposed to be discriminated against on account of the color of their skin!
  • Roger W. Smith Can a great book be badly written? (Can a great author write badly?)
  • Roger W. Smith Capt. Caleb Congdon (1767-1832) of New Bedford MA
  • Roger W. Smith Children’s and Young
  • Roger W. Smith comments on the criminal justice system
  • Roger W. Smith copyeditors who needs ‘em; The New York Times that’s who
  • Roger W. Smith crisis managers
  • Roger W. Smith Crowd Control on the Brooklyn Bridge
  • Roger W. Smith Current Biography
  • Roger W. Smith dealing with a blow (death)
  • Roger W. Smith Did Jim Brosnan Use the Spitball?
  • Roger W. Smith Early Congdon Family
  • Roger W. Smith Eastern Parkway Brooklyn
  • Roger W. Smith Edvard Grieg solo piano music
  • Roger W. Smith Emerson and Whitman
  • Roger W. Smith English and Shakespeare
  • Roger W. Smith excerpts from James Thomson’s Spring
  • Roger W. Smith expressing outrage ... admirable or to be frowned upon?
  • Roger W. Smith Family of Caleb (1767-1832) and Susanna (Taber) Congdon (1770-1839) of New Bedford MA
  • Roger W. Smith Family Separation: A Daily Diary
  • Roger W. Smith Family Separation a Trump Administration Policy: Its Implementation Development and Aftermath 2017-2022
  • Roger W. Smith Family Separation Final Report
  • Roger W. Smith Family Separation Under the Trump Administration: A Timeline
  • Roger W. Smith footnotes
  • Roger W. Smith Further High School Remembrances
  • Roger W. Smith genealogical notes: Hart family of Southeastern Massachusetts
  • Roger W. Smith Good Neighbors in a Metropolis
  • Roger W. Smith hallowed be her name
  • Roger W. Smith hatred that feeds a psychological need
  • Roger W. Smith haying
  • Roger W. Smith Henry James on Summertime
  • Roger W. Smith Henry Miller and Sherwood Anderson
  • Roger W. Smith her instead of him; Ms.; and what else?
  • Roger W. Smith horse intelligence (can animals think? redux)
  • Roger W. Smith How I Built a Good Vocabulary
  • Roger W. Smith how NOT to cite footnotes
  • Roger W. Smith how to clean one's office/room
  • Roger W. Smith how to FAIL in business (small businesses that is)
  • Roger W. Smith I am my own best editor and critic.
  • Roger W. Smith immersing oneself is to be desired
  • Roger W. Smith incarceration death
  • Roger W. Smith indoors versus outdoors during the Coronavirus epidemic
  • Roger W. Smith in which I take stock of myself considered as a reader
  • Roger W. Smith irony
  • Roger W. Smith Is it okay to associate with disreputable people?
  • Roger W. Smith is it possible (or desirable) to hold two divergent opinions at the same time?
  • Roger W. Smith Is the Brooklyn Bridge Too Crowded?
  • Roger W. Smith It All Depends on Where You Draw the Line
  • Roger W. Smith it don’t exactly curve
  • Roger W. Smith it pays to study another language
  • Roger W. Smith I Went to the School of New York
  • Roger W. Smith I’m so glad I took high school Latin.
  • Roger W. Smith Jane (Gilchrist) Smith (1834-1907)
  • Roger W. Smith jealousy
  • Roger W. Smith Joe Biden Is Lying
  • Roger W. Smith John Congdon Hart (1829-1883) of New Bedford MA
  • Roger W. Smith Kids Are Sp Matter of Fact
  • Roger W. Smith Kirk Douglas on the “glories” of New York
  • Roger W. Smith learning a new language
  • Roger W. Smith Lee Bollinger on diversity
  • Roger W. Smith let them frolic!
  • Roger W. Smith lock jawed by ideology (thoughts about the Biden allegations)
  • Roger W. Smith lunacy triumphant (or who’s in charge?)
  • Roger W. Smith Manhattan in Spring
  • Roger W. Smith Manhattan Island from Bottom to Top; Walking as Exercise
  • Roger W. Smith Meddlers
  • Roger W. Smith Meister Eckhart's Golden Rule
  • Roger W. Smith Memories of the Past Make Us Who We Are Today
  • Roger W. Smith Memory preserves the past and fixes the imagination.
  • Roger W. Smith morals (in which I anoint myself a philosopher)
  • Roger W. Smith more thoughts about Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  • Roger W. Smith Mozart’s Jupiter live (thoughts inspired by)
  • Roger W. Smith musical (and non-musical) musings
  • Roger W. Smith musical settings of Walt Whitman's When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d
  • Roger W. Smith Must It Always Be Sexual?
  • Roger W. Smith my Blake books
  • Roger W. Smith My Brief Encounter with Bobby Fischer
  • Roger W. Smith My Career As a Freelancer
  • Roger W. Smith my comments on Ukraine
  • Roger W. Smith My Early Reading
  • Roger W. Smith my first few days in New York
  • Roger W. Smith my French teacher
  • Roger W. Smith My freshman comp instructor would be turning in his grave.
  • Roger W. Smith My Grandfather the 1912 World Series and Harry Hooper’s Catch; Plus a Couple of My Own Favorites
  • Roger W. Smith my Henry Miller books
  • Roger W. Smith my mental influences
  • Roger W. Smith my Revolutionary War ancestor
  • Roger W. Smith My Treasured Books
  • Roger W. Smith Newspapers the Red Sox and Frank Malzone
  • Roger W. Smith new vocabulary IV
  • Roger W. Smith new vocabulary words
  • Roger W. Smith New York can be lived as a small town
  • Roger W. Smith New Yorkers
  • Roger W. Smith no greater love
  • Roger W. Smith Notes on Life A Theodore Dreiser Encyclopedia Ed. Keith Newlin
  • Roger W. Smith now the graveyards?
  • Roger W. Smith office politics -- reflections upon -- plus some thoughts about writing as it relates to IQ
  • Roger W. Smith OJ on the Rocks
  • Roger W. Smith On Baseball
  • Roger W. Smith on hearing Brahms’s Requiem; views on death
  • Roger W. Smith on photography (an exchange of emails with apologies to Susan Sontag)
  • Roger W. Smith on poverty
  • Roger W. Smith On Reading Theodore Dreiser’s An American Tragedy
  • Roger W. Smith On the Glories of English
  • Roger W. Smith On the Importance of Downtime
  • Roger W. Smith paper on classic Spanish playwrights
  • Roger W. Smith parental love
  • Roger W. Smith Paris
  • Roger W. Smith patriotic music
  • Roger W. Smith photographer of my city
  • Roger W. Smith poetic prose
  • Roger W. Smith pompous pontificating clumsy locutions a tissue of generalities; doublespeak … how NOT to write
  • Roger W. Smith Preadolescence
  • Roger W. Smith publications
  • Roger W. Smith Pulled Over in a Rental Car
  • Roger W. Smith Racism should be recognized for what it is.
  • Roger W. Smith re Boston and environs as compared to NYC
  • Roger W. Smith reflections about my Dad as a pianist
  • Roger W. Smith Reflections on Public Morality (occasioned by the Lewinsky scandal)
  • Roger W. Smith re Melania's outfit and its designer
  • Roger W. Smith re the development of musical appreciation as seen in myself
  • Roger W. Smith review of Dreiser’s ‘Other Self’: The Life of Arthur Henry
  • Roger W. Smith review of Trump: The Art of The Deal by Donald J. Trump
  • Roger W. Smith Richard Handy (d. 1719) of Sandwich MA
  • Roger W. Smith Roger Smith's New York
  • Roger W. Smith Samuel Johnson on NOT keeping secrets
  • Roger W. Smith Samuel Johnson’s politics
  • Roger W. Smith Schubert’s Winterreise on a December afternoon
  • Roger W. Smith Scotch marriage record of my ancestors (my Smith grandfather’s great-grandparents)
  • Roger W. Smith serendipity (or should I say the paranormal)
  • Roger W. Smith Shostakovich Symphony No. 5 in D minor; Шостакович Симфония № 5 ре минор
  • Roger W. Smith Shostakovich symphony no. 11 (“The Year 1905”); Шостакович Симфония № 11 («1905-й год»)
  • Roger W. Smith Since when was a translator's race important? (Since now.)
  • Roger W. Smith Some Comments about Spain
  • Roger W. Smith some of my best friends
  • Roger W. Smith Some of My Favorite Art
  • Roger W. Smith Some things that happened never happened.
  • Roger W. Smith some thoughts about the criminal justice system
  • Roger W. Smith specious Jesuitical (or “All slaveholders were evil but some were more evil than others.”)
  • Roger W. Smith Street and Smith A Theodore Dreiser Encyclopedia Ed. Keith Newlin
  • Roger W. Smith student paper on Bernal Díaz del Castillo
  • Roger W. Smith student paper on Latin American authors
  • Roger W. Smith Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony
  • Roger W. Smith Thanksgiving
  • Roger W. Smith the Abuse of Bad Words
  • Roger W. Smith the Asian quota
  • Roger W. Smith the awfulness of Lincoln Center
  • Roger W. Smith The Beauty of Walt Whitman’s Images
  • Roger W. Smith the bloviator Donald J. Trump
  • Roger W. Smith the complete Jesuit Relations
  • Roger W. Smith the demise of Lord & Taylor
  • Roger W. Smith The family of Thomas Smith (1837-1902) and Jane (Gilchrist) Smith (1834-1907) of Boston MA
  • Roger W. Smith the ferry
  • Roger W. Smith the foot philosophy
  • Roger W. Smith The Forlorn Cat
  • Roger W. Smith the four things that no human being endure (a question the answer to which was torturing me)
  • Roger W. Smith The Great American Novel
  • Roger W. Smith the Great American Novel II
  • Roger W. Smith the last straw
  • Roger W. Smith The LRY folks I remember best
  • Roger W. Smith the music of languages
  • Roger W. Smith the Pocasset murder 1879
  • Roger W. Smith The Sacking of Billy Bushh
  • Roger W. Smith the sardonic extended metaphor As seen in Herman Melville
  • Roger W. Smith The Supernatural A Theodore Dreiser Encyclopedia Ed. Keith Newlin
  • Roger W. Smith Thomas Smith (1837-1902)
  • Roger W. Smith Thomas Smith and Jane (Gilchrist) Smith from Scotland to Boston MA 1872
  • Roger W. Smith Thomas Smith Jr. (1861-1894) and Jennie (Wright) (Smith) Simpson (1863-1948)
  • Roger W. Smith Thomson and Milton
  • Roger W. Smith Thoreau's Last Journal
  • Roger W. Smith thoughts about Beethoven
  • Roger W. Smith thoughts about Charles Ives (and Copland Barber and Gershwin) … plus thoughts about making lists of favorites (and making such judgments in general)
  • Roger W. Smith Thoughts About Chekhov
  • Roger W. Smith thoughts about Elvis with a nod to Monsiuer Proust
  • Roger W. Smith Thoughts About Gogol
  • Roger W. Smith thoughts about Hiroshima
  • Roger W. Smith Thoughts Concerning Repression of Discourse
  • Roger W. Smith thoughts on another concert ... on performers ... on acting
  • Roger W. Smith thoughts on the uprising in Gaza
  • Roger W. Smith Toynbee and Gibbon
  • Roger W. Smith translation into Spanish of passage from George Gissing
  • Roger W. Smith tribute to Pierre Coustillas
  • Roger W. Smith Trump Takes Manhattan
  • Roger W. Smith two letters of condolence; and how (in my opinion) to write one
  • Roger W. Smith two of my favorite Chekhov stories
  • Roger W. Smith unable to love
  • Roger W. Smith visiting one of Walt Whitman’s residences
  • Roger W. Smith Vivaldi was a violinist.
  • Roger W. Smith Vocabulary: Building and Using One’s Own; The Delight of Same; Its Value to a Writer
  • Roger W. Smith Walking the Brooklyn Bridge
  • Roger W. Smith Walt Whitman on Baseball
  • Roger W. Smith Walt Whitman on Walking
  • Roger W. Smith what NYC is made of
  • Roger W. Smith when a man is tired of New York
  • Roger W. Smith when in doubt assume a greater rather than lesser degree of intelligence
  • Roger W. Smith when knowledge (and learning) can prove to be useful; the pleasures of pedantry
  • Roger W. Smith Where have you gone George Orwell?
  • Roger W. Smith William Handy (1762-1852)
  • Roger W. Smith will ladies and gentlemen go the way of the dodo?
  • Roger W. Smith writers; walkers
  • Roger W. Smith Yankee “friendliness”
  • Roger W. Smith “a brief exercise in verbal impressionism"
  • Roger W. Smith “a hot summer morning
  • Roger W. Smith “a hot summer morning (with reflections on the topic of weather)”
  • Roger W. Smith “Biographical Sketch of Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy”
  • Roger W. Smith “Come let us gloat over the beast in the cage.”
  • Roger W. Smith “concert musings”
  • Roger W. Smith “does cold air kill germs? (thoughts of a fresh air fiend)”
  • Roger W. Smith “Everyone one wants to amount to something.”
  • Roger W. Smith “Henry Miller”
  • Roger W. Smith “immigration policy Walt Whitman and Donald Trump’s wall; or the Berlin Wall redux”
  • Roger W. Smith “is it good to give to beggars?’”
  • Roger W. Smith “Learning How to Write”
  • Roger W. Smith “left vs. right brainedness; and CREATIVITY”
  • Roger W. Smith “Marquess of Queensberry rules for arguments”
  • Roger W. Smith “my personal library of books by and about Samuel Johnson and James Boswell”
  • Roger W. Smith “New York sunlight (and New York joys)”
  • Roger W. Smith “on caring for sick people (and why the health care system often fails them) … plus what I have learned about same from experience and reading; and from Walt Whitman Florence Nighti
  • Roger W. Smith “Religion”
  • Roger W. Smith “Some people aren’t interested in people.”
  • Roger W. Smith “Sorokin as Bilingual Stylist: His English Language Writings Examined from a Stylistic Perspective”
  • Roger W. Smith “Sorokin on human emotions in a time of plague
  • Roger W. Smith “The Growing Debate Over American History Textbooks”
  • Roger W. Smith “The Importance of Memory”
  • Roger W. Smith “the salt of the earth”
  • Roger W. Smith “vaporized; or when is person not a person?”
  • Roger W. Smtih
  • Roger Whittredge Smith
  • Roger W Smith
  • Roger W Smith in which I make the case against tedious criticism (and for myself)
  • Roger W Smith six rules governing Good Samaritan-ship and do gooders (based upon a book hunter’s apocryphal story)
  • Roger W Smth
  • Roland H. Bainton
  • Rollo May
  • Romeo and Juliet
  • Ronald Gentile
  • Ronsard "Comme on voit sur la branche au mois de Mai la rose"
  • Ronsard Le Second Livre des Amours
  • Ronsard Le Second Livre des Amours II iv
  • Rosalind Murray
  • Rosemarie Acquilina
  • Ross Douthat
  • Ross Douthat Do Liberals Care if Books Disappear?
  • Rosseter's Book of Ayres
  • Rpger Smith
  • Rpger W. Smith
  • Rubén Darío
  • Rudolf Serkin
  • rules for argumentation
  • Rumer Godden
  • Russell Baker
  • Russell E. Kidd
  • Russell E. Minkwitz
  • Russell E. Minkwitz Jr.
  • Russell Kidd
  • Russell Minkwitz
  • Russian among the barbers and employees of the barber shop. Spanish spoken rapidly and with a distinct “New York” accent on the sidewalks.
  • Russian makes such intricate complex often long words German-style with prefixes and endings adding complexity and specifying grammatical function and meaning.
  • Russ Weisman
  • Ruth Colp-Haber
  • Ruth Harwood Cline
  • Ruth Wahtera
  • S. J. Taylor
  • Sachiko Furuhata-Kersting
  • Sacvan Berkovitch
  • Saint-Saens
  • Saint-Saens Organ Symphony
  • Saint-Saens Symphony No. 3
  • Saint-Saens The Swan
  • Saint Augustine
  • Saint Francis
  • Sam Jones
  • Sammy Glick
  • Samson oratorio
  • Samuel Barber
  • Samuel Barber Adagio for Strings.Sa
  • Samuel Beckett
  • Samuel Butler
  • Samuel Johnson
  • Samuel Johnson A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland
  • Samuel Johnson essays
  • Samuel Johnson has been known mostly for his conversation -- not his writings.
  • Samuel Johnson Lives of the Poets
  • Samuel Johnson on secrets
  • Samuel Johnson portraits at middle age
  • Samuel Johnson Rambler No. 13
  • Samuel Johnson Rambler No. 13. “The duty of secrecy. The invalidity of all excuses for betraying secrets”
  • Samuel Johnson The Lives of the Poets
  • Samuel Johnson the wide effulgence of a summer noon
  • Samuel Johnson Thomson The Lives of the Poets
  • Samuel Johnson “Milton”
  • Samuel Johnson “On the Death of Dr. Robert Levet”
  • Samuel Johnson “Scruple Wormwood Sturdy and Gentle” The Idler No. 83
  • Samuel Johnson “The duty of secrecy. The invalidity of all excuses for betraying secrets” The Rambler No. 13 May 1 1750
  • Samuel Joy
  • Samuel Palmer
  • Samuel Pepys
  • Samuel Silberstein
  • Sandra Beasley
  • Sandra Mosher
  • Sanford
  • Sanford ME
  • San Francisco earthquake
  • Sarah Archibald
  • Sarah Chase
  • Sarah Cooke
  • Sarah Dwelley
  • Sarah G. Dwelley
  • Sarah Huckabee Sanders
  • Sarah J. H. Haskell
  • Sarah M. Moulton
  • Sarah Martha Moulton
  • Sarah Maslin Nir
  • Sarah Moulton
  • Sarah N. Chase
  • Sarah Neal Chase
  • Sarah Vaughan
  • Sarah Vaughan Seranata
  • Sarah Vaughan The Green Leaves of Summer
  • Sarah Warren
  • Satchel Paige
  • Saul Bellow
  • Saul Bellow Seize the Day
  • Saving America’s Cities: Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban Age
  • Sayat-Nova
  • Sayings of the High One
  • Schoolboy Rowe
  • Schubert
  • Schubert "Wasserflut”
  • Schubert impromptu D. 899
  • Schubert knew and understood humanity. Human longings and sorrows.
  • Schubert makes the particular the lived and keenly experienced moment take on Blakean eternity:
  • Schubert Mass No. 6 in E-flat major
  • Schubert mass no. 6 in E flat
  • Schubert piano sonata in A major D. 959
  • Schubert piano sonata in B-flat Minor D. 960
  • Schubert piano sonata no. 20 in A D. 959
  • Schubert quintet in C major op. 163
  • Schubert String Quartet No. 14 in D minor Death and the Maiden
  • Schubert’s Quintet in C opus 163
  • Schubert “Winterreise”
  • Scott Lloyd
  • screen adaptations
  • Secrets are very frequently told in the first ardour of kindness or of love for the sake of proving by so important a sacrifice sincerity or tenderness; but with this motive though it be strong in its
  • Selected Writings of Juan Ramon Jiménez translated by H. R. Hays
  • selections from Prokofiev's score for the film Ivan the Terrible
  • Selmin Feratovic
  • Sentence fragments can work if used sparingly
  • sentences that convey more information are more effective than those that convey less
  • separating tender age children at the border
  • separation of migrant children from parents
  • separation of mothers and children
  • separation of undocumented children from parents
  • Serene Jones
  • Sergei Eisenstein
  • Seth Lerer
  • Shakespeare
  • Shakespeare It was a Lover and his Lass
  • Shakespeare King Lear
  • Shakespeare Sweet lovers love the spring
  • Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice
  • Shakespeare The Tempest
  • Shakespeare The Tempest V.i.65–68
  • Sharpiegate
  • Sharpton permanently and irretrievably lost any credibility in the Tawana Brawley rape case.
  • Shefter’s Guide to Better Compositions
  • She has been trying to walk as much as she can during the Coronavirus epidemic. She said she thinks that it is ridiculous for people to be confined indoors. She said that people need fresh air and sun
  • Sheldon Leffler
  • Sheldon S. Leffler
  • Sheldon Silver
  • Sheldon Silver Former N.Y. Assembly Speaker Will Finally Go to Prison: Mr. Silver receives a sentence of 78 months after two trials.
  • She lost more than her cool. She accused him of threatening her life. Your response screams entitled white privilege.
  • Sherwood Anderson
  • Sherwood Anderson Lift up thine eyes
  • Shirley Jones
  • Shorakkopoch
  • Shorakkopoch stone
  • Shorakopok
  • Shorakopok stone
  • Shostakovich
  • Shostakovich Cello Concerto No. 1 in E-flat Major
  • Shostakovich Symphony No. 4
  • Shostakovich Symphony no. 5
  • Shostakovich Symphony No. 5 in D minor
  • Shostakovich Symphony No. 7 in C major
  • Shostakovich Symphony No. 7 in C major Op. 60 (“Leningrad”)
  • Shostakovich Symphony no. 11
  • Shostakovich symphony no. 11 (“The Year 1905”)
  • Shostakovich The Sun Shines Over the Motherland
  • Shostakovich “Vozrozhdenije”
  • show don't tell
  • shut up their shops
  • Sibelius "Swanwhite"
  • Sibelius "Swanwhite" Op. 54
  • Sibelius Finlandia
  • Sibelius “Kullervo”
  • Sibelius “Se'n har jag ej frågat mera”
  • Significant transformation is needed to change the ways that museums and archives benefit from and reinforce harmful societal norms including racism and white supremacy.
  • Silbelius "Kullervo"
  • Simon Karlinsky
  • Simon Karlinsky "The Sexual Labyrinth of Nikolai Gogol"
  • Simple declarative sentences are not necessarily better than complex ones
  • Simpson Hart
  • Since Fox News types are crying censorship it (censorship) must be okay now.
  • Since when did it become copacetic to bar someone for employment or an appointment (or consideration for same) on the account of skin color?
  • Since when has it been imperative to avoid things with the potential to make oneself sad?
  • Sir Arthur Sullivan
  • Sir Robert Chambers
  • Sir Robert Chambers A Course of Lectures on the English Law
  • Sir Robert Chambers A Course of Lectures on the English Law: Delivered at the University of Oxford 1767-1773
  • Sir Walter Scott The Lady of The Lake
  • Sir William Jones
  • Sir William Jones on Sanskrit
  • Sir Wyndham Deedes
  • Skeeter Davis The End of the World
  • Slason Thompson Eugene Field: A Study in Heredity and Contradictions
  • slum clearance
  • Smetana The Moldau
  • social distancing
  • some are so bold as to think my book of travels a mere fiction out of mine own brain
  • Some people are inherently mean.
  • Some people aren’t interested in people.
  • Some people evaluate other people they meet solely on their “resume” on externals such as occupation importance etc. They care nothing about people as people. They are not interested in people as
  • Some people love to fret complain and worry about any and all perceived inconveniences.
  • Some persons exhibit increased concern and thoughtfulness for others and their welfare. Others use a panic or disaster as an occasion to exhibit traits of officiousness and pettiness which they feel a
  • Sometimes one suffers an emotional blow or gratuitous insults and meanness and it’s the last straw.
  • Sometimes people when you least expect it will reveal something good about themselves.
  • Sometimes the cold ice and snow can be invigorating as well as beautiful.
  • Somini Sengupta
  • Sorokin Hunger as a Factor in Human Affairs
  • Sorokin Leaves from a Russian Diary
  • Sorokin Russia and the United States
  • Sorokin Social stratification is a permanent characteristic of any organized society.
  • Sorokin The Crisis of Our Age
  • Sorokin the fact of stratification is universal.
  • Sorokin There has not been and does not exist any permanent social group which is "flat" and in which all members are equal.
  • Sorokin Unstratified society with a real equality of its members is a myth which has never been realized in the history of mankind.
  • so to speak
  • Speaking directly to the reader and/or making an abstract argument more personal are not “wrong”
  • Special considerations in translating Pitirim Sorokin’s work “City and country” (Prague 1923)
  • spring (as seen by The Bard by Tolstoy; and felt by us all myself included)
  • Spring-headed Hydraes and sea-shouldring Whales
  • spring as seen by The Bard by Tolstoy
  • Springtime on Funen
  • St. Augustine
  • St. Paul Catholic Church Dorchester MA
  • St. Petersburg
  • St. Thomas Aquinas Inter mundana omnia nihil est quod amicitiae digne praeferendum videatur.
  • St. Thomas Aquinas There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
  • Stafford L. Warren
  • Stafford Leak Warren
  • Stafford Warren
  • Stalin
  • Staten Island Ferry
  • Steele Dossier
  • Stefan Zweig
  • Stefan Zweig "Balzac"
  • Stephanie Lake
  • Stephanie Taylor
  • Stephen Bardle The Literary Underground in the 1660s: Andrew Marvell George Wither Ralph Wallis and the World of Restoration Satire and Pamphleteering
  • Stephen Best
  • Stephen Decatur
  • Stephen Hales
  • Stephen Hopkins
  • Stephen Miller
  • Stephen Pearl Andrews
  • Steve Dunleavy
  • Steve Frank
  • Steven Osborne
  • Steven Woloshin
  • Steve Post
  • Stew Thornley
  • Strand Bookstore
  • Strand Bookstore New York
  • Strunk and White The Elements of Style
  • Stuart Gilbert
  • Student Religious Liberals
  • substance abuse
  • Such as taking on their anxieties and fears and obsessive tendencies on others who have nothing to do with them and no actual or imaginable relationship to any actual emergency.
  • Sue Ford
  • Suffer the little children to come unto me and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God.
  • Sulzberger
  • Sunnyside Queens
  • supermom Amy Coney Barrett on family separation
  • Susanna Congdon
  • Susanna Cross
  • Susanna Cross Congdon
  • Susanna Taber
  • Susanna Taber Congdon
  • Suzanne Downing
  • Swift family
  • Swift Memorial United Methodist Church
  • Swift Memorial United Methodist Church Sagamara MA
  • Sydney Horovitz
  • Syed A. Jamal
  • T. Gordon Smith
  • T. O'Connor Sloane
  • T. S. Eliot
  • T. S. Eliot “Blake” The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism)
  • Talcott Parsons
  • Tammy Kemp
  • Tara Reade
  • Tchaikovsky 1812 Overture
  • Tchaikovsky a cappella choral pieces
  • Tchaikovsky Nine Choruses
  • Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 1 in G minor (Winter Reveries)
  • Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5
  • Tchaikovsky Symphony no. 5 in E Minor Op. 64
  • Tchaikovsky The Year 1812 Solemn Overture
  • Tchaikovsky “The Seasons”
  • Ted's Creamy Root Beer
  • Ted Genoways
  • Ted Williams
  • Ted Williams's final game
  • Ted Williams's last homerun
  • Ted Williams’s last homerun: a footnote or two; and some trivia
  • Tell me Tom-I want to ask you a question: in base-ball is it the rule that the fellow who pitches the ball aims to pitch it in such a way the batter cannot hit it? Gives it a twist-what not-so it sl
  • Tenet Vocal Artists
  • Tennessee Immigrant Refugee and Rights Coalition
  • Tennyson "Ulysses"
  • Tennyson Idylls of the King
  • Terrence Byrd
  • Testimony: The Memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich As Related to and edited by Solomon Volkov
  • Texas Civil Rights Project
  • that is not too “energetic” for this time and yet that is artistically exquisite and deeply felt
  • That was empathy by definition. Putting yourself in someone else’s shoes. No matter who how close you may or may not be and how big or small the other’s situation or misfortune appears to be.
  • that which war and revolution unleash (Sorokin 1922)
  • the absurdity of racial categorizations (a glaring example)
  • The Autobiography of a Turkish Girl
  • The Autobiography of A Turkish Girl: Çalıkuşu
  • The Autobiography of a Turkish Girl Reşat Nuri Güntekin
  • The baseball field is beautifully designed.
  • The best and only cures are the natural ones; fresh air and sunshine fluids food rest and sleep.
  • The best medicines healing factors restoratives curatives are omnipresent in the environment.
  • The best medicines healing factors restoratives curatives are omnipresent in the environment everywhere around us and are free such as fresh air breezes sunlight and water.
  • The blab of the pave the talk of the promenaders Walt Whitman Song of Myself
  • The boardwalk has been there since the bridge was originally opened in 1883. Leave it alone!
  • the Boz Ball
  • The Cafe Has Black Lives Matter Signs. The Owner Voted for Trump.
  • The Catcher in the Rye
  • The Chantels Maybe
  • The cheerfulness of a room the usefulness of light in treating disease is all-important. Florence Nightingale
  • The consideration of race alongside many other factors helps us achieve our goal of creating a student body that enriches the education of every student.
  • the cost of living
  • the craft of writing
  • The Crystals Da Doo Ron
  • The Crystals Then He Kissed Me
  • The Dead-Carts
  • the demise of the sentence (remember that?)
  • The Diamonds Little Darlin'
  • The Diary of Samuel Pepys
  • The difference between Trump and most politicians is that there is no frame of “moral reference.”
  • the doctor or nurse should first listen to the patient
  • The doors of the infected households were marked with a red cross over which was written: Lord have mercy on us!
  • The Editor believes the thing to be a just History of Fact; neither is there any Appearance of Fiction in it
  • The Elements of Style
  • The Emporer's New Clothes
  • The essential ingredient of health care is not treatment of symptoms or of disease -- it is treatment of the person.
  • the essential ingredient of health care is not treatment of symptoms or of disease -- it is treatment of the person. Doctors should not be treated as priests of medicine.
  • The Fair Carew
  • The Famous Historie of the Seaven Champions of Christendom
  • The Fireside Book of Baseball
  • The first movement of Beethoven’s piano sonata Opus 78. This movement is one of my absolute favorites among the piano sonatas. A brilliant opening.
  • The Five Satins
  • The Five Satins In the Still of the Night
  • the four things that no human being endure
  • the four things that no human being endure (a question the answer to which was torturing me)
  • The Frick Collection
  • The game succeeds in creating a temporary timelessness perfectly appropriate to its richly cyclical nature.
  • The Genius film 2016
  • The give and take among friends is wonderful; the sense of acceptance and of affirmation of one’s personhood yours and theirs.
  • The Golden Rule
  • The grass and soil absorb the heat whereas the pavement radiates it back like an oven.
  • the great American novel hasn't been written yet (review of Of Time and the River)
  • The great era of Broadway musicals in my humble opinion was the 1940s and 50s.
  • The Great Plague of London
  • The Great Plague of London; excerpts from The Diary of Samuel Pepys
  • The Green Leaves of Summer
  • the inherently primitive circumstances of agrarian societies produced a lower class in economic bondage
  • The Island: A Journey to Sakhalin
  • The Jesuit Relations
  • The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents: Travels and Explorations of the Jesuit Missionaries in New France 1610-1791 edited by Reuben Gold Thwaites
  • The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents edited by Reuben Gold Thwaites
  • The Journal of George Fox
  • the joy of learning new words
  • The jurors had left the courtroom by the time Mr. Chauvin was handcuffed and led away but when Mr. Mitchell saw video of him being taken into custody he said he felt compassion for him. “He’s a hu
  • The King and I
  • The Lady with the Dog; film 1960 Director Iosif Kheifits
  • The Last Hurrah
  • The Little Red Hen
  • The Lone Ranger
  • The Long Season
  • The main purpose of reading is not to ingest or process information -- it is something else basically aesthetic enjoyment (often) of good writing and being able to immerse myself in thoughts of great
  • The main purpose of reading is not to ingest or process information.
  • The Merchant of Venice
  • The Morgan Library
  • The Morgan Library & Museum
  • the most concise style not a prioi the best one
  • The most Scottish of the Russian writers – Mikhail Lermontov
  • The Music Man
  • The myth of Johnson the blind and frightened political reactionary can easily be shown to be as unsubstantial as the myths of Johnson the dogmatic critic and Johnson the academic versemaker.
  • The narrator's own voice is a masterpiece of understated realism adapting its very structure to reflect uncertainty shock and the faltering linkages of memory. Bills of mortality baldly punctuating th
  • the needy and downtrodden; and it is good to show kindness and solicitude for those whom one encounters in the byways
  • The New Yorker
  • The New York of art film houses the Automat McSorley’s Old Ale House and the Blarney Stones; of the Metropolitan Museum of Art when admission was free; of the New York Public Library when it was ope
  • Theodore Dreiser
  • Theodore Dreiser "Dawn"
  • Theodore Dreiser "My City"
  • Theodore Dreiser A Book About Myself
  • Theodore Dreiser An Amateur Laborer
  • Theodore Dreiser An American Tragedy
  • Theodore Dreiser Newspaper Days
  • Theodore Dreiser Sister Carrie
  • Theodore Kaltsounis
  • Theodore S. Wayne
  • Theodor Geisel
  • The often-heard "excuse" is that by killing all those Japanese civilians it saved millions of more deaths from the war. My view is if it was necessary to frighten the Japanese into submission and admi
  • the particular matters; quotes from famous authors
  • The Penguins Earth Angel
  • The Platters
  • The pleasure the extreme aesthetic satisfaction I get out of baseball comes from situations like this in which plays unfold and scenarios happen in front of you.
  • The politically correct Jacobins have zero humanity empathy compassion. The blood runs cold in their sclerotic veins.
  • The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
  • The predominant focus of a game is THE BALL. Where it is at a given moment.
  • The present writer finds Lolita unenjoyable and unreadable and too clever by half.
  • The president is golfing and exercising White male privilege
  • The Private Life of Henry Maitland
  • the purchase of the Island of Manhattan was accomplished in 1626
  • the question is not whether a philosophy or belief system is TRUE it’s whether you like it nor not; does it appeal to you say something to you?
  • There are three elements to good writing: unity coherence and emphasis.
  • The Red Pony film 1949
  • The Red Pony Lewis Milestone
  • There have been few basic changes in baseball rules for over one hundred years making it possible to compare players of different generations.
  • There is a new standard for political disputes. Facts and falsehoods are on equal footing if enough people believe in the latter.
  • There is no clock to regulate duration of play.
  • There is no possibility of a just or good outcome from Weinstein’s trial.
  • There is such diversity in ethic groupings that it seems nonsensical to me to sort them into ironclad groupings.
  • There was a confidence about that generation and a sense that things were as they should be. That hard work and ambition would bring success.
  • The Ronettes Be My Baby
  • The sadness I often feel now -- today and many other days -- is palpable almost physically.
  • The Sanscrit language whatever be its antiquity is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek more copious than the Latin and more exquisitely refined than either yet bearing to both of the
  • the scouting expedition of Capt. (later Col.) Jeremiah Moulton
  • These are some of the things that preserve the memory of my parents for me
  • The second movement of Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony. I find the second movement haunting and still do. Like a lot of great Beethoven music great passages it is unique. He seems to be always original
  • The serene and meditative state baseball can induce in the spectator and even in a participant.
  • The Sermon on the Mount
  • The Shirelles Will You Love Me Tomorrow
  • The sick person heals himself or herself.
  • The simple pleasure and restful rhythm of playing catch.
  • The slow (third) movement of Beethoven’s A minor String Quartet (Op. 132). Plumbs spiritual and emotional depths.
  • The solution for getting tired seems to be walk a little bit more.
  • the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.
  • The spectator/watcher can reflect upon what is happening on several levels both through anticipation or foreknowledge of possible scenarios strategies and outcomes; and later through the re-creation o
  • The Teddy Bears To Know Him Is To Love Him
  • The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
  • The Three Basic Elements of Good Writing
  • The true heroes of this crisis this pandemic are indeed the doctors nurses and other hospital workers; and the EMS workers medics and ambulance drivers.
  • The true intellectual knows his or her strengths and weaknesses.
  • the true intellectual …
  • The trumpet in his perch at the very rear of the balcony in the Allegro Vivace of the Leonore Overture No 2. There is a pause by the orchestra. So unexpected the trumpet. So dramatic.
  • The use of arcane or highfalutin words is not necessarily a sin
  • The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.
  • The very first canon of nursing the first and the last thing upon which a nurse’s attention must be fixed the first essential to the patient without which all the rest you can do for him is as nothi
  • The way in which religion affects me most profoundly is through art in the broad sense of the word.
  • The Western Star in the earlier hours of the evening has never been so large so clear; it seems as if it told something as if it held rapport indulgent with humanity with us Americans.
  • the works of great writers Are the best models
  • The world of childhood. Psychanalyst Selma Fraiberg called them “the magic years." What concerns them. Their lack of guile. Their innocence.
  • the world’s largest penal colony
  • The Wren Reşat Nuri Güntekin
  • They are so well taken care of. They’re in facilities that were so clean that have gotten such good —
  • They built cages. You know they used to say I built the cages. And then they had a picture in a certain newspaper and it was a picture of these horrible cages and they said look at these cages Preside
  • The “incredible transition” into the work’s final movement (between the third and fourth movements) of Beethoven’s Fifth. It never fails to thrill me. It’s brilliant and overpowering.
  • The “traffic engineers” pedestrian traffic engineers besides pocketing a hefty fee will mess things up. They will make the experience of walking the bridge worse at the minimum -- whatever “solu
  • This is intended to be an essay about a mentality where a person has deeply held beliefs and then finds himself or herself entertaining/considering contrary beliefs and perhaps questioning one’s ini
  • This is what baseball is about. A boy or man trying to outrun a ball.
  • This is what Robert Moses did to the Bronx.
  • This mass — one of six masses of unsurpassable beauty and profundity composed by Handel (a very devout man) near the end of his life — requires no comment but the flawless composition in a work th
  • This pamphlet is published to prove what nobody will deny that we shall be less happy if we were conquered by the French.
  • This pandemic is a story that is best covered not from White House press briefings but from the front lines in the hospitals.
  • This problem can NOT be taught any longer. A problem which refers to gender might be offensive to some students.
  • This story illustrates a major flaw in constructing a piece of writing: a weak premise.
  • Thomas A. Linehan
  • Thomas B. Macomber
  • Thomas B. Smith
  • Thomas Campion
  • Thomas Campion nine Songs From Rosseter’s Book Of Ayres
  • Thomas Flint
  • Thomas G. Pounder
  • Thomas Gordon Smith
  • Thomas Harned
  • Thomas Hovenden The Last Moments of John Brown
  • Thomas Jefferson
  • Thomas Kail
  • Thomas Kranidas
  • Thomas L. Whittredge
  • Thomas Livermore Whittredge
  • Thomas M. Curley
  • Thomas Morley
  • Thomas Morley It Was a Lover and His Lass
  • Thomas Morley songs from the “First Book of Ayres”
  • Thomas Morton
  • Thomas Moulton
  • Thomas P. Riggio
  • Thomas P. Riggio “Oh Captain My Captain: Dreiser and the Chaplain of Madison Square”
  • Thomas P. Riggio “Oh Captain My Captain: Dreiser and the Chaplain of Madison Square” Studies in American Naturalism
  • Thomas Pounder
  • Thomas Prence
  • Thomas Riggio
  • Thomas Smith
  • Thomas Smith 1837-1902
  • Thomas Smith Jr.
  • Thomas Smith Jr. 1861-1894
  • Thomas Tomkins
  • Thomas Whitredge
  • Thomas Whittred
  • Thomas Whittredge
  • Thomas Wolfe
  • Thomas Wolfe Of Time and the River
  • Thomas Wolfe on baseball
  • Thom Hartmann
  • Thoms Godon Smith
  • Thornton Wilder Our Town
  • Thoughts Concerning “Repression of Discourse”
  • through translation everyone can admire the sparkling brilliance of their iceberg-like beauty
  • Thénardiers
  • Timothy Egan
  • Tim Robinson
  • To be able to have friends is one of the most wonderful things about human existence. Few experiences rival it.
  • Tobias Grey
  • Todd and Curti Rise of the American Nation
  • Tolstoy Childhood
  • Tolstoy Resurrection
  • to make the dramatic immediacy of the narrative predominate and keep the author “behind the curtains” out of sight so to speak.
  • Tom Brewer
  • Tom Homan
  • Tommy Low
  • Tommy Tuberville
  • Tom Wolfe
  • Tom Wolfe The Bonfire of the Vanities
  • Tony Curtis Houdini
  • Tony Sherbo
  • Tony Williams
  • to refrain from letting anger show
  • to refrain to the fullest extent possible from expressing annoyance or anger
  • train travel 1842
  • Treasure Island
  • Treat the person; not the disease. Treating the disease is actually nurturing/fostering it.
  • True art mixes joy and beauty with pathos.
  • true Christianity
  • Trump administartion immigration policy
  • Trump The Art of thd Deal
  • Trump The Art of the Deal
  • Tugrul Zure
  • Tu pleures ainsi que le rossignol / Tu rayonnes ainsi que la rose / Tu es unqiue au monde et personne ne te resemble.
  • Two of the great poverties of modern psychological are its inability to see human beings related to other forms of life: flowers water leaves mountains etc. and its failure to affirm that we are liter
  • U.S. Customs and Border Protection
  • U.S. immigration policy
  • U.S. Japanese leaders visit Hiroshima as Russia nuclear tensions rise Michelle Ye Hee Lee The Washington Post March 26 2022
  • Ukraine invasion
  • ultimate existential concerns
  • Ulysses impresses one. But does it engage the reader the way a novel by an “inferior” writer like Dreiser does.
  • Under the Sun
  • Under the Sun directed by Vitaly Mansky
  • Under the Sun documentary film
  • United States Penitentiary Administrative Maximum Facility
  • urban renewal
  • Urszula Pustelak MD
  • Use of A-Bomb Condemned: Group Notes Tenth Anniversary of Bombing of Hiroshima letter to editor The New York Times August 3 1955
  • using race as a metric.
  • Utagawa Hiroshige
  • Valery E. Sharapov
  • Vandy Singleton
  • Vanessa Friedman
  • Van Morrison
  • Van Morrison Astral Weeks
  • vaporized; or when is person not a person?
  • Victor Hugo
  • Victor Hugo Le Dernier Jour d'un Condamné
  • Victor Hugo Les Miserables
  • Victor Hugo The Last Day of a Condemned Man
  • Virgil Thomson
  • Virgil Thomson Five Songs from William Blake
  • Virgil Thomson The Plow That Broke the Plains
  • Virgil Thomson The River
  • Virgil Thomson “Imperfect Workmanship” New York Herald Tribune October 15 1942
  • Virgil Thomson “Shostakovich’s Seventh” New York Herald Tribune October 18 1942
  • Virginia Llewellyn Smith Anton Chekhov and the Lady with the Dog
  • Vitaly Mansky
  • Vitaly Marnsky "Under the Sun"
  • Vivaldi clothing boutique New York
  • Vivaldi concerto in C major RV 443
  • Vivaldi Concerto No. 10 in B minor for four violins
  • Vivaldi Gloria
  • Vivaldi Gloria RV 588
  • Vivaldi Gloria RV 589
  • Vivaldi Juditha Triumphans
  • Vivaldi Qui sedes ad dexteram Patrtis
  • Vivaldi Stabat Mater
  • Vivaldi The Four Seasons
  • Vivaldi “Domine Fili unigenite”
  • Vladimir Nabokov
  • Vladimir Nabokov Lolita
  • Vocabulary: Building and Using One’s Own; The Delight of Same; Its Value to a Writer
  • Volodymyr Zelensky
  • V paprscích slunce
  • W. Harold Row
  • W. P. Kinsella
  • Walking is conducive to thinking and creativity.
  • Walking seems to be a near perfect form of exercise.
  • Wallace Fletcher
  • Wallt Whitman Life and Adventures of Jack Engle
  • Walter Albert
  • Walter Duranty
  • Walter J. Ciszek S.J.
  • Walter Pidgeon