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I want to start with this quote. Franklin roosevelt, president roosevelt died on april 12, 1945. This was just a few weeks before world war ii in europe was over, just a couple of months before world war ii in the Pacific Theater was over. Roosevelt made it almost to the end of the war. Six days later, april 18, the reporter, ernie pyle, was killed on an island in the western pacific. Killed by japanese machinegun fire. Obviously these were not equally traumatic events to the country. But it is kind of remarkable that just six days after roosevelts death, who had been president for 12 years, t...

How I got irony in the infantry

  Helen Hennessy Vendler was born in Boston in 1933. She studied chemistry at Emmanuel College, a Roman Catholic school for women in Boston, and went to the University of Louvain after graduation on a Fulbright fellowship. She took her Ph.D. at Harvard in 1960 with a dissertation on Yeats, a...

Maggie Doherty on the poet and author of “In Dreams Begin Responsibilities,” who inspired Robert Lowell, John Berryman, and Lou Reed.

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