"Let the Earth Bear Witness"
Words by William Butler Yeats, music by Mike Scott of The Waterboys
Ducks amuck
On the use of kazoo-like instruments to promote amphibious-vehicle tours in San Francisco, with references to Merrie Melodies and John Ashbery.
The Brooklyn National Anthem
"Spring has sprung, the grass has riz. I wonder where the birdies is."
Three inaugural moments
Sources for Barack Obama's speech and Joseph Lowery's benediction
An inaugural poem
By me
USA Arts
Streaming shows from Channel 13
Words from Charles Van Doren
The name Charles Van Doren will bring to mind the quiz show Twenty-One and scandal. But here's another way in which Charles Van Doren might...
Auden, London
The novelist Ian McEwan, writing in the New York Times : In Auden's famous poem, "Musée des Beaux Arts," the tragedy of Icarus falling from ...