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Category Archives: Marblehead
Pam Brown Appears
Six people gathered around two tables slid together at the Random Order Cafe earlier this evening, as the sun gave a multi-colored show in the west before departing for the day. The usual suspects, Dave Westerlund, Charlotte Miller, Herschel Soles, … Continue reading
A Long Time Ago dans une autre monde
30 June 1989 To Gary Nix and Mike Girard Dear Mike and Gary, It’s a little after six in the afternoon on a summer day as I sit down to write this letter at a desk before a large second-stored … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Elections, Friendship, Global, Inequality, Local government, Marblehead, Oakland, Ronald Reagan, Spiritual life, War
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School Days
The fiftieth reunion of the Class of Marblehead High School, Marblehead of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, took place and produced these photos. Just a few posts ago I believe I referred to the Hungarian Communist Party Member Arthur Koestler’s biography … Continue reading
It’s a Small World, department
Your Intrepid Reporter has counted himself, in writing, an élève whatever that means of the quondam Curator of Modern Physics at the Smithsonian Institution of Washington DC, which now retired under-appreciated critique [I almost said Kritiker but decided to limit myself to two languages] des … Continue reading
L’Auteur des Misérables Nous Parle
Le grand maître de la littérature française du dix-neuvième siècle a dit [référence bibliographique aux chercheurs sincères] Eh bien! une foule de grands guerriers ont été borgnes ou boiteux. Philippe [de Macedon — MM] était borgne, boiteux, et de plus … Continue reading
Posted in Empire, Global, Inequality, Local government, Marblehead, Pacific Green Party, Spiritual life, War
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Letter to Dominic from the Streets of Oakland
From the desk drawer of the Editor: Suppose Gorbachev and Reagan were to meet, and they agreed to abolish nuclear weapons. But they already have. They agreed in Iceland to cut arsenals in half by 1990, and then fade them … Continue reading
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