Immediately after Japan’s “sneak” (ha!) attack against Pearl Harbor, Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt damned December 7th, 1941 as “a day that will live in infamy”.
I submit that his eloquent terminology also applies, for all time, to that entire abominable era in American history when the country’s administration totally forgot F.D.R.’s earlier assurance that “We [...]
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During my New York years (until I fled the country in 1949 at the age of 25) I frequently read the admirable New York Post because of its status as the only truly liberal daily newspaper in town. Deplorably, as so frequently happens in the U.S. media world, some unperson eventually bought it and turned [...]
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See and hear them mambo the living bejesus out of Lenny’s West Side Story example during their recent London Proms concert!
Technorati Tags: Gustavo Dudamel, Leonard Bernstein, London Proms
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It should surprise no one familiar with her writings that as soon as decently possible after her so casual, offhand invitation to stop in for a drink the next time I found myself in her Manhattan neighborhood around that time of the afternoon, I did just happen to find myself around Madison Avenue and the upper [...]
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“HERR CHARLES PAUL MOOR, GEBOREN [undsoweiter], HAT MIT DEM ZEITPUNKT DER AUSHÄNDIGUNG DIESER URKUNDE DIE DEUTSCHE STAATSANGEHÖRIGKEIT DURCH EINBÜRGERUNG ERWORBEN.”
“HERR CHARLES PAUL MOOR, BORN [etcetera], HAS UPON RECEIPT OF THIS CERTIFICATE RECEIVED CITIZENSHIP OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY THROUGH NATURALIZATION.”
[Understandably, this event - yesterday morning - has temporarily distracted me from absolutely everything else, [...]
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On this day 114 years ago, a New York couple named Rothschild, who had a summer cottage in the little New Jersey beach town of Long Branch, became parents of a baby they named Dorothy. (A brief momentary aside: on this same date, 79 years ago, a German couple named Stockhausen living near Cologne became [...]
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By way of preparation for what I myself hope to write about Dorothy day after tomorrow, this afternoon I pulled out a book I’d bought when it first appeared in 1981: “The Last Laugh” (Simon & Schuster), a collection of odds and ends left by that master humorist S. J. Perelman when he died. I [...]
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On August 22d 114 years ago, the Rothschild couple who lived in New York but had a summer cottage at 732 Ocean Avenue in the New Jersey village of Long Branch became parents there of a baby girl they named Dorothy. In due time she married a gentleman named Parker, and in the years after [...]
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[From Mathias Herzog, the Berlin bureaucrat responsible for surnames beginning with "M":]
Sehr geehrter Herr Moor,
Ich habe meine Vorlage an die Senatsverwaltung für Inneres und Sport nunmehr zurückerhalten.
Man hat meine Entscheidung zustimmend zur Kenntnis genommen und teilt meine juristische Auffassung. Ich freue mich daher aufrichtig Ihnen mitteilen zu können, dass Ihrer zügigen Einbürgerung nun nichts [...]
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[Of late such dreary priorities as livelihood-earning have forced me to neglect this rumpus-room, but I'll use the following, just sent to the editor of www.musicalamerica.com, to get things here going again - until I can finally get around to writing about my two (brief and superficial but still highly memorable) personal encounters with Marlene [...]
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