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...island of Manhattan is without any doubt the greatest human concentrate on earth, the poem, whose magic is comprehensible to millions of permanent residents but whose full meaning will always remain illusive,” wrote E. B. White in Here is New York. “Manhattan has been compelled to expand skyward because of the absence of any other direction in which to grow. This, more than any other thing, is responsible for its physical majesty...
...pleased when, at the request of the star Belle Baker, Berlin had written a song for her to interpolate into an otherwise all-Rodgers-and-Hart score for the Broadway musical "Betsy." The song, "Blue Skies," was the show's biggest hit.) George Gershwin's death inspired a thoughtful poem from the bereft Berlin...
...offered to al-Qaeda by a network of radical and militant Saudi clergy; bin Laden and al-Ghamdi mention four other clerics approvingly. "That kind of sympathy with Islamic militancy and rationalization of terror," says Jacquard, "has become common in Saudi Arabia and the gulf states." Ranstorp thinks the poem bin Laden recited- "Our homes are flooded with blood...we will not stop our raids/Until you free our lands"- could mean that a new wave of attacks on the U.S. will be launched after Afghanistan has been pacified. "One of the worrying things," he says, "is that we will...
...poem without any religious nature beyond the mention of the word “Christmas,” a legend little-commemorated outside of some European circles was suddenly made into a “jolly old elf” with the power to make some seethe with anti-exclusivist fervor. Since Santa Claus was not widely associated with Christmas in America until a bit over a century ago, it should give some people pause to hear that it is an integral part of Christianity. However, Pforzheimer House Committee President Teresa L. Bechtold ’02 believes that, regardless...
David Modigliani said that he was at this dinner because he imposed himself on people, and the Sandrine’s waiter who motioned for him to quiet down would not argue. He offered a poem, “Transactions,” about an elephant trainer who got traded to another circus, and a loud and funny impression of his Italian grandparents...