Poetry: In a Church of Padua by Herman MelvilleIn vaulted place where shadows flit,An upright sombre box you see:A door, but fast, and lattice none.Read More Song In My Head: On the Radio by Regina Spektor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHAhnJbGy9M Art: Richard Dadd’s The Fairy Feller’s Master-Stroke Photo credit: tate.org.uk Quote: “It is justice, not charity, that is …
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A DATE WITH HISTORY: Saturday, Dec 13, 1969
In the Top Ten: Take a Letter Maria by R.B. Greaves https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9Y0x1jLkLg On the Bestseller List: The Seven Minutes by Irving Wallace Photo credit: amazon.com New In Theaters: They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ke-sWMXspNA New In Comic Shops: Angel and the Ape #7 Photo credit: mycomicshop.com On TV: Mannix https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLubfmXdOfc Magazine Roulette: Model Rocketry Photo …
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Poetry: When the Year Grows Old by Edna St. Vincent MillayI cannot but remember When the year grows old–October-November– How she disliked the cold!Read More Song In My Head: Long December by Counting Crows https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1D5PtyrewSs Art: Arthur Lemon’s The Wooing of Daphnis Photo credit: tate.org.uk Quote: “I asked a man in prison once how he …
A DATE WITH HISTORY: Saturday, Dec. 12, 1959
In the Top Ten: Don’t You Know? by Della Reese https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N86nxxZW6UY On the Bestseller List: Too Many Ghosts by Paul Gallico Photo credit: historical.ha.com New In Theaters: Never So Few https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhiP4niVKDE New In Comic Shops: Space Adventures #31 Photo credit: mycomicshop.com On TV: The Man and the Challenge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKBVZxcKlzU Magazine Roulette: The New Yorker Photo …
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Poetry: The Old Stoic by Emily BrontëRiches I hold in light esteem, And Love I laugh to scorn;And lust of fame was but a dream, That vanished with the morn:Read More Song In My Head: Game to Lose by I’m With Her https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZjI_we8dXo Art: Charles Samuel Keene’s ‘Incorrigible!’ Photo credit: tate.org.uk Quote: “Be …
