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Entries from June 2008

Update: There are savages walking among us.

June 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

Using “The Road Not Taken” and another poem as jumping-off points, Frost biographer Jay Parini hopes to show the vandals the error of their ways — and the redemptive power of poetry.

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Tags: books · house · language

Musicopolitical hilarity

June 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

Being evasive is not the same as lying in Bush’s mind.

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Tags: books · fiction · music

Bev to Ande: 3 June 1943

June 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

A group of young women from our Club want to do their part in making the Amer.-born Japanese soldier, who has proved loyal to our U.S. feel welcome amongst us in the ‘Y.”

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Tags: Bev & Ande · politics

Ted Kennedy’s brain

June 2nd, 2008 · No Comments

They put the patient under anesthesia and cut away a piece of the skull just above the tumor. They then awaken the patient, and probe the area around the tumor to see exactly which parts of the brain are crucial for normal functioning.

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Tags: health

Bev to Ande: 2 June 1943

June 2nd, 2008 · No Comments

Max., Aud., & I are planning on going to a Club picnic to-night at Powderhorn. It is raining, as usual, but we’re going anyway, as will eat in the pavilion.

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Tags: Bev & Ande

Richard to Alice: 1 June 1944

June 1st, 2008 · No Comments

Today we saw a short movie and got a haircut. After about 20 of the 63 guys in the platoon had theirs cut and we had had mess, cleaned up the hut, and seen the movie, they raised the colors. (They raise the colors at 8:00 a.m.) If you see any hair on this letter, think nothing of it. Just call me baldy.

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Tags: history · Richard & Alice