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- bad advice
- photos, photos (ears of corn)
- 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 heroic nurses of the Civil War, by Roger W. Smith
- washing their hands
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- A. M. Rosenthal (NY Times Managing Editor & columnist)
- actors and acting
- advice a la Dear Abby
- aesthetics
- Alan W. Smith (Roger W. Smith's father)
- Aldrich Ames (convicted spy)
- Anglo Saxon poetry
- astronomy
- audio books
- autobiographical – Roger W. Smith
- Balzac
- baseball
- book collecting
- book reviews by Roger W. Smith
- books (considered as such)
- books – the physical book
- Cambridge, MA
- Canton High School, Canton, MA
- Canton, MA
- Carl Nielsen (Danish composer)
- Charles Dickens
- children's and young adult books
- cinema
- cities; urban living; urban policies and planning
- college (my courses & professors)
- correspondence of Roger W. Smith
- creativity; thought
- criminal "justice"
- diaries of sons' early years kept by Roger W. Smith
- discourse
- Лев Николаевич Толстой
- Питирим Александрович Сорокинn
- editorial work (both done personally by me and as practiced in journalism and publishing)
- Elinor Handy Smith (Roger W. Smith's mother)
- English (the language)
- epistolary (letter writing as a genre; letters as examples of good writing)
- essays (by Roger W. Smith)
- ethics
- etiquette, personal conduct
- family history (includes content that is broader in scope than just genealogy)
- foreign language papers by Roger Smith
- foreign language study
- García Lorca
- genealogy
- general interest
- George Gissing (Victorian novelist)
- grammar (thoughts of a grammar purist and ex-proofreader)
- Harry Stack Sullivan
- health care and medicine (considered generally)
- Henry Miller
- Herman Melville
- Hiroshige, Utagawa – landscape prints
- historiography
- James Boswell
- Jonathan Swift
- journalism by Roger W. Smith
- journalism critiqued as such (and as specimens of writing)
- journalism school papers by Roger Smith
- Juan Ramón Jiménez (Spanish poet)
- language (vocabulary, usage); language in the abstract as it pertains to writing
- letters to editor by Roger W. Smith
- Liberal Religious Youth (LRY) / Student Religious Liberals (SRL)
- literature
- Michel de Montaigne
- miscellaneous writings (not by Roger Smith)
- music (from the point of view of a listener)
- musings (random daily thoughts)
- my books
- my city and neighborhood
- my dogs
- my family
- my favorite art
- my favorite books
- my favorite films
- my favorite music
- my favorite places
- my favorite poems
- my friends
- my reading; observations on reading
- my recent ancestors (granparents, great-grandparents, etc.)
- my travels
- nutrition
- obituaries and eulogies
- obscenity
- Old Norse Poetry
- parenting
- personal health and exercise
- personal psychology (Roger W. Smith observations re)
- personal reminiscences of Roger W. Smith
- personal views of Roger W. Smith
- personal writings of Roger W. Smith
- philology
- photographic
- Pierre de Ronsard (16th century French poet)
- Pitirim A. Sorokin (sociologist & social philosopher)
- plagiarism
- political correctness (PC)
- politics
- public morality
- publications (bibliography) of Roger W. Smith
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- reading and readers
- reference book articles by Roger W. Smith
- relationships (general comments re)
- religion
- Samuel Johnson
- Scholastic Search magazine – articles by Roger W. Smith
- self-help
- Shakespeare
- Sherwood Anderson
- social engineering
- Theodore Dreiser
- Thomas Wolfe
- Thoreau
- Tolstoy
- tributes (written by Roger W. Smith)
- Walt Whitman
- whaling (19th century accounts of)
- William Blake
- work and the working life
- writers considered not in depth, but as exemplars (for good or bad) of the craft
- writing (the craft of writing; good vs. bad writing; my training, experience, and lessons re same)
- writing as it relates to my blog posts and readers' sensitivities
- 歌川 広重)
- A. M. Rosenthal (NY Times Managing Editor & columnist)
- Alan Smith
- Alan W. Smith
- Alan W. Smith (Roger W. Smith's father)
- Alan Wright Smith
- Annie C. Hart
- Annie Congdon Hart
- Annie Handy
- Bill Dalzell
- Caleb Congdon
- Canton High School, Canton, MA
- Carl Nielsen
- Charles Dickens
- Charles Pierre
- Donald J. Trump
- Donald Trump
- Edvard Grieg
- Edward Marshall Hart
- Elinor C. Handy
- Elinor Congdon Handy
- Elinor H. Smith
- Elinor Handy
- Elinor Handy Smith
- Elinor Handy Smith (Roger W. Smith's mother)
- Elinor Smith
- Elizabeth F. Hewins
- Elizabeth Frances Hewins
- Esther Whittredge
- George C. Smith
- George Caldwell Smith
- George Colwell Smith
- George Gissing
- George Orwell
- George Orwell Nineteen Eighty-Four
- Harold Aspiz
- Henry David Thoreau
- Henry Miller
- Henry T. Handy
- Henry Thomas Handy
- Jane Gilchrist
- Jane Gilchrist Smith
- John C. Hart
- John Coffee
- John Congdon Hart
- John M. Coffee
- Juan Ramón Jiménez (Spanish poet)
- Liberal Religious Youth
- Lionel Shriver
- Louisa May Alcott
- Louisa May Alcott Work: A Story of Experience
- LRY
- Lydia Congdon
- Michel de Montaigne
- New York Times
- P. A. Sorokin
- Pitirim A. Sorokin
- Pitirim Sorokin
- Ralph Colp Jr.
- Ralph E. Handy
- Ralph Ellis Handy
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Robert Tighe
- Robert W. Tighe
- Roger Smith
- Roger W. Smith
- Samuel Johnson
- T. Gordon Smith
- Theodore Dreiser
- Thomas Gordon Smith
- Walt Whitman
- William Blake
- William Handy
- William S. Dalzell
- William Sage Dalzell
- Питири́м Алекса́ндрович Соро́кин
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Tag Archives: Roger Smith
Beethoven; nature
I was listening to the fifth movement of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6 (Pastorale) conducted by Simon Rattle: “Hirtengesänge – Frohe und dankbare Gefühle nach dem Sturm” (Shepherds’ song. Happy and thankful feelings after the storm). Great rendition. It … Continue reading
bad advice
“I judge a book by the impression it makes and leaves in my mind, by the feelings solely as I am no scholar.–—A story that touches and moves me, I can make others read and believe in.–—What I … Continue reading
Posted in literature
Tagged A. K. Loring, Louisa May Alcott, Roger Smith, Roger W. Smith
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photos, photos (ears of corn)
I just received a book I had ordered from Amaazon.com: Reporter: A Memoir by Seymour Hersh. I am eager to read it Well, I WAS eager to read it. I flipped through it and took a look at … Continue reading
washing their hands
When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye … Continue reading
Posted in general interest, politics
Tagged Donald J. Trump, Donald Trump, Hogan Gidley, Jeff Denham, Jeff Sessions, John F. Kelly, Kenneth Wolfe, Kirstjen Nielsen, Marco Rubio, Mark Meadows, migrant children, Roger Smith, Roger W. Smith, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Stephen Miller, zero-tolerance policy
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“I feel really great.”
“I feel really great,” Mr. Trump said. “It’s going to be a great discussion and, I think, tremendous success. I think it’s going to be really successful, and I think we will have a terrific relationship. I have … Continue reading
re “Under the Sun” (a film about North Korea)
Three years ago (it seems like yesterday), I saw a film at the Film Forum in Manhattan: Under the Sun, a documentary film about North Korea. Such a film would be pretty much unavailable in movie theaters outside … Continue reading
Posted in general interest, my favorite films
Tagged В лучах солнца, Вита́лий Все́володович Ма́нский, Віталій Всеволодович Манський, Glenn Kenny, Karlis Auzans, North Korea, Roger Smith, Roger W. Smith, Under the Sun, Under the Sun documentary film, V paprscích slunce, Vitaly Mansky, Vitaly Marnsky "Under the Sun"
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