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Only Angels Have Wings (1939)
In this film, Cary Grant, as manager of a small fly-by-night air mail service in South America, must take big risks to make his company a success.
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Octavia to Mark Antony (conclusion)
Our poet this week is Samuel Daniel, who, in the Elizabethan and Jacobean age, revived the genre of the epistolary poem, one that takes the form of a…
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Lamp of Our Feet
The Hebrews called the Ten Commandments the “ten words." When God speaks to man, it is a great gift, since all personhood is founded in God.
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LETTER
We can trace the nearby origin of our Word of the Week, letter, to the Norman French. But what was the Latin source of the word?
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Resending "Loch Lomond"
Scottish Folk Song
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"Loch Lomond"
Sometimes a song belongs to the world at large, and today’s selection is just such a song.
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Huckleberry Finn (chapters 33-35)
In today’s reading, the boys plot how to get Jim free from the shed where he’s chained. Unfortunately, Tom’s been reading too many adventure novels …
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Random Harvest (1942)
Amnesia, the wholesale breach in a person’s lived remembrance, has the potential for acute dramatic irony in a film. And Ronald Coleman is perfect in…
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Holy Sonnet, IX
Most often we beg God to remember us, but John Donne, who in his youth was something of a rake, begs God to forget.
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Jesus, Son of Mary
Today's hymn originally had the title, Yesu bin Mariamu, as it was written in Swahili by the Anglican missionary, Edward Stuart Palmer.
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REMEMBRANCE
When I was a boy, we called November 11 Armistice Day. Some of our readers know it as Remembrance Day.
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"Undecided"
This week's composer was earning a living as a musician at age sixteen. At age eighteen he wrote our song for this week. And his name was not Irving…
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