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Entries from April 2008

The Thin Red Line: This great evil

April 5th, 2008 · 4 Comments

Is this darkness in you, too?

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Tags: film

Bev to Ande: 4 April 1943 (part 2)

April 4th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Am planning on getting a portable elec. sew. machine – trading in our old one – which we don’t have room for. All right with you? Am sure we can always get our $20 worth out of it.

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Bev to Ande: 4 April 1943

April 4th, 2008 · 1 Comment

You mentioned playing a game with the officers and giving them a trimming. What game was that? You certainly know how to keep fit with those exercises, don’t you. I think that’s fine.

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Tags: Bev & Ande · music

Walt Disney: Racially Insensitive vs. Racist

April 3rd, 2008 · 1 Comment

Members of the black community protested that any film version of the Uncle Remus stories was bound to portray black Americans in a servile and negative way. A “vicious piece of hocus pocus,” one group called it.

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Tags: film · history · language

Judith to Ande: 3 April 1943

April 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

T’was a beautiful spring day. We are beginning to see a few green blades. I heard the first robin while at work in defense school and tonight as we ate supper I spied him perched on a tree outside the window.

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Bev to Ande: 2 April 1943

April 2nd, 2008 · No Comments

Want to paint the kitchen furniture white too, so there’s a lot to do – but I like it. I should really be quite experienced in all this housework when we finally have our own home.

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Trained In at Collegeville

April 2nd, 2008 · 3 Comments

Trained In, a 2007 documentary short by Kevin Garrison and Allison Stagg.

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Should the lark cease singing because winter must come? – Ling Po

April 1st, 2008 · 1 Comment

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SJxpouYg_w”

He is twice guilty who regrets not an unworthy act. – Ling Po

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Tags: film · language