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When sudden death takes a president, opportunities for new beginnings flourish among the ambitious and the tensions among such people can be... →
Situation comedy on television has thrived for years on 'canned' laughter, grafted by gaglines by technicians using records of guffawing... →
Feel good about linking hands in human chain for good causes.
It's always seemed odd to me that after a group of terrorists commits a vile and odious deed they rush messages to the public to claim credit for... →
A day spent praising the earth and lamenting man's pollutionist history makes you feel like a superior, sensitive soul.
Few expected very much of Franklin Roosevelt on Inauguration Day in 1933. Like Barack Obama seventy-six years later, he was succeeding a failed... →
The early commentators who put down the pre-presidential Roosevelt as an empty-headed young lightweight, all ambition and no talent, now seem... →
In America, it is sport that is the opiate of the masses.
I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world.
Americans like fat books and thin women.
People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.
It was clear soon after his election that Obama, like FDR, wanted to start dealing with the economic crisis immediately after his inauguration.
Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century.
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