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In "Feh," Shalom Auslander confronts being middle-aged, a time of life that, given his external circumstances, you would think he would be celebrating.
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I am appalled that the Recorder was willing to print the dehumanizing language in the Nov. 2...
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If I thought it would make a difference, I would take a page from Jonathan Swift and write my own modern proposal. I would call it “A Modest Proposal for...
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Wow. Stewart Goodyear can play Prokofiev. The Czech Philharmonic and Tomás Netopil are compelling advocates, playing Dvořák with plenty of rhythmic zest and...
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Alexander Pope is hardly an unknown quantity. Born in London to a family of merchants in 1688 and buried in a Catholic Church in the suburb of Twickenham in...
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On Nov. 28, 2018, former President George H.W. Bush died at his home in Houston, six months after the passing of his wife, former first lady Barbara Bush.
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They include: -- Italian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio in 1508. -- Irish satirist Jonathan Swift in 1667. -- Novelist Mark Twain, born Samuel...
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