Word: keillors
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Public radio humorist Garrison Keillor delivered a witty, self-effacing oration at Phi Beta Kappa’s literary exercises yesterday, bringing folksy humor to the 211th annual ceremony honoring Harvard’s inductees into the country’s oldest undergraduate honors society...
Literary humorist Garrison Keillor and poet Luci Brock-Broidi will address the inductees. The ceremony is open to the public...
...Garrison Keillor's account of his father's final illness [ESSAY, March 12] just confirms what I have told so many friends concerning the death of my own mother. We who stay behind miss the bad times with the deceased parent just as much as the good times. What wouldn't we give to fight with this person once again? I, for one, would welcome another good and serious argument with my mother because even if we had our disagreements, they were an occasion for us to exchange feelings. The downside is that you come to this realization only after...
...remember when my Grandma Keillor lay dying in a little hospital in Onamia, tended by her daughters, and my father and his brothers came to bid farewell to her. They drew up their chairs to the foot of the bed where she lay unconscious, and they were very still and solemn for a while, but in due course they got to talking about cars. It struck me at the time as callous--I was 20 and a poet--to sit by your dying mother and discuss a particular low-mileage Ford station wagon you'd seen on a used...