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"There's No Business Like Show Business"
Scored by Irving Berlin, and Produced by Rodgers & Hammerstein.
19 hrs ago
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What Television Shows
Listen, and be amazed!
Jun 5
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The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)
On the circus, and an America that was.
Jun 4
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A king tells his son how to make a good show of himself ...
Shakespeare teaches us about politicians and actors ...
Jun 3
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Eternal Light, Eternal Light!
How do we behold the Father who dwells in inaccessible light?
Jun 2
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SHOW
From the theater in ancient Athens, to Jenny Lind, to circuses, carnivals, and marching bands!
Jun 1
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May 2026
"The Way We Were"
Here's a great song Marvin Hamlisch wrote for Barbra Streisand.
May 30
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"When Textbooks Upheld the Ideals of Our Ancestors"
A message from another world -- which used to be our own.
May 29
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The Man Who Never Was (1956)
The most intelligent film of espionage in wartime that I know!
May 28
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On Shakespeare
Here's a memorial from one giant to another!
May 27
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Holy Spirit, Lord of Light (Veni, Sancte Spiritus)
The Golden Sequence of Pentecost
May 26
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MEMORIAL
On patriotism, love, the Muses, the mind, and heaven.
May 25
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