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18 Commonweal . August 17, 2007 Treat for the Ears This thought before the TV talk Shows drive us to perdition: We once had silent movies—why Not silent television? —John Nixon Jr....
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Don Wycliff ONE OF OURS Bill Clinton & African-Americans One of the best homilies I've heard in recent years was given on the Feast of the Holy Family in my parish church, Saint Mary's, in...
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John Nixon, Jr. Blessed Were the Poor During the Great Depression About the only thing Affordable was good taste. So we had that. It took Us several decades To realize that's why The era was...
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John Nixon, Jr. Four Feel around the Square About as thin as the sheet music They didn't have, my teen-aged uncle And Plussy, only slightly fatter And black as...
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John Nixon, Jr. Second Primer The rules for second childhood are the same As for the first. Wash everywhere. Be true. To the extent you can, assist the lame. Revere your maker. Speak when...
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reader there is the sense that despite these contradictions, Weil's was a life of the mind, and that she had carried her thought as far as it could go. It is her thinking that puts her in the...
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of clowns (Milton Berle through Lucy to Candice Bergen), prophets (John Cameron Swayze through Cronkite to Peter Jennings), "real people" (Joe McCarthy to the sad people on "America's Funniest...
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John Nixon, Jr. Young Tory Much transatlantic visiting And always in the belter castlesThanks to Sir Walter Scott, Dumas, And other literary snobsMade bearable my otherwise Quite Spartan...
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Ownership is consonant with changes in workers themselves. According to a recent survey by the Public Agenda Foundation, today's more educated workers demand much more from a job than a good...
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JOHN NIXON, JR. THE PLACE Architecturally incredible And a decorator's nightmare, The place has blue ceilings And is walled by trees With birds-literal birds-in them. It's been condemned for...
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JOHN NIXON, JR. THE MARCHER Being out of step with those who are out of step is not The same thing as being in step with those who are in step, he said, but what Difference does it make, anyway,...
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chosen genre was the shomin geki, the drama of middleclass workers. Unlike Kurosawa, who has tried his hand at every genre with very un-Japanese eclecticism, Ozu concentrated diligently on one...
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Treat for the Ears
(August 2007)
