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Yearly Archives: 2011

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  • 18 Oct 2011

    Reading Hemingway for the First Time, Part 2

    In celebration of The Letters of Ernest Hemingway, Volume 1, we asked Hemingway enthusiasts and scholars what their first experience with Hemingway was, and how he came to make a place in their hearts and minds. Our series on first Hemingway experiences continues with a film lover, an English student, a library lover, and a […]

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  • 14 Oct 2011

    Coming to the Walters Art Museum This Weekend: The Archimedes Palimpsest

    This weekend, The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore will open a new exhibit that brings to light remarkable discoveries from a hidden manuscript. Titled “Lost and Found: The Secrets of Archimedes,” the exhibit shows how an international team of scientists and scholars uncovered material that was assumed to be lost for centuries

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  • 12 Oct 2011

    Reading Hemingway for the First Time: Part 1

    A favorite of high school English classes, Hemingway is a figure many people encounter early on in their literary lives, and some fall in love right away. For others, the encounter is more turbulent – in some cases, very polarizing. “What’s the big deal?” one reader (now a Papa fan) wondered upon reading Hemingway for […]

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  • 11 Oct 2011
    Shannon Gilreath

    Why Gays Should Not Serve in the United States Armed Forces: A Gay Liberationist Statement of Principle, Part II

    If, by our example of how we have reclaimed our own very UN-Hetero values of self-love, self-esteem, and self-affirmation, we can inspire the Spiritually STILL-indentured Colonialized Minority Communities to invent similar ways to rise from their . . . servitude to stand once more . . . —no longer in the values and symbols of […]

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  • 6 Oct 2011
    Shannon Gilreath

    Why Gays Should Not Serve in the United States Armed Forces: A Gay Liberationist Statement of Principle, Part I

    The question of whether Gays should be allowed to serve in the armed services—that is, the generally accepted question of whether Gays should be permitted to serve—is actually divisible into two questions.

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  • 3 Oct 2011

    Waiting for Godot: 60 Years of Covers

    One of the most performed plays in the world, Waiting for Godot was the work that launched Samuel Beckett to international fame – a status that would grapple with for the rest of his life.

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  • 29 Sep 2011

    Making of Life and Loss in the Shadow of the Holocaust: Final Installment

    In the first video for Life and Loss in the Shadow of the Holocaust, we watched co-author Rebecca Boehling as she sat down with Suzanne Ostrand-Rosenberg, whose discovery of her mother’s wartime letters inspired the book. We finish the video series with two more videos that provide an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the making of […]

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  • 26 Sep 2011

    Conversations with John Marburger: Constructing Reality

    As Science Advisor to President George W. Bush and Director of Brookhaven National Lab, the late John Marburger continually received questions from teachers, journalists, political staffers, technicians, students and many others seeking to understand today’s new frontiers in the field. Before his passing this past July, he wrote a book to answer these questions.

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