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Biden, The Invisible Man

August 16, 2022
by Caroline Miller
Abhijit Banerjee, atomic bomb, budget myths, Climate change, Donald Trump, Harry Truman, Inflation Reduction Act, Joe Biden's presidency, Mark Twain, Marshall Plan, Merrick Garland, Mir-a-Lago, political parties and the economy, polling numbers, Truman Doctrine, United Nations
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The budget pamphlet in my mailbox was titled “Financial Realities.”  I laughed.  As a person once responsible for a  $200 million budget, I know financial realities are imaginary.  Budgets are guestimates of the future based on the unlikely assumption that history will repeat
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Intimations On American Democracy

November 23, 2021
by Caroline Miller
Biuld Back Better, change and belief systems, Dr. Jean Kim, Eric Pianku, Hamlet, Kevin McCarthy, Marjorie Taylor Green, Mark Twain, Nancy Pelosi, Paul Gosar, physiology and human adaptability, the brain at odds with itself
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Lately, I’ve wondered if the human brain is capable of living up to its democratic ideals. What raised this question was an article I’d read about bone development in a child’s hand.  At the age of three, a youngster is unable to hold a pen because he or she lacks sufficient bo
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A Short Hour To Fret Upon The Stage

September 25, 2019
by Caroline Miller
"Catcher in the Rye", "The Lost Yearling", "The Yearling", Lauren Graff, Marjoire Kennan Rawlings, Mark Twain, To Kill a Mockingbird
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“…only a lucky writer can write a classic, and it’s only a rare classic that can be perennially relevant.” So writes Lauren Groff in her essay, “The Lost Yearling” (Harper’s, Jan. 2014, pgs. 89-94), a eulogy of sorts, for the fading Pulitzer prize book, The Yearling, wri
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That Is The Question

September 22, 2017
by Caroline Miller
"Travels with Charlie, fiction and memoirs, Innocents Abroad, John Steinbeck, Mark Twain, Mary Karr, The Art of the Memoir, writing memoir
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I’ve been toying with the idea of writing a memoir. Not the story of my life.  Nothing is so extraordinary in my existence that it merits a book.  But a booklet about my four years abroad might be of interest to others.  I left for Europe in the early 1960s and returned nearly fo
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What Did Mark Twain Say And How Did He Say It?

September 12, 2014
by Caroline Miller
censure versus censorship, Mark Twain, wish tense
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Mark Twain
Recently, a Facebook friend shared a quote attributed to — but not proven to be — by Mark Twain: “Censorship is telling a man he can’t have a steak just because a baby can’t chew it.”  I wrote back that I could make neither heads nor tails of this
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A Strong Warning

July 30, 2014
by Caroline Miller
Donna Tartt, Evgenia Peretz, Henry James, It's Tartt - But Is It Art, Mark Twain, Norman Mailer, Stephen King, The Goldfinch
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judging literature
Winning the Pulitzer Prize won’t ensure a writer respect from a certain cadre of critics, those who owe their high perches to their employment rather than to any literary achievement.   For good or ill, these arbitrators of taste imagine they determine what passes for fine literat
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Satanic Verses — A Dark Anniversary

May 30, 2014
by Caroline Miller
"Satanic Verses", England's Prince Charles, Mark Twain, Salman Rushdie, Susan Sontag
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Salman Rushdie
It’s been 25 years since Salman Rushdie published his novel Satanic Verses and Iran’s head of state, the Ayatollah Khomeini, responded by charging him with blasphemy and placing a death sentence upon his head. Not surprisingly, Rushdie went into hiding when he heard the news.  Th
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A Little Humility, Please

March 04, 2014
by Caroline Miller
Davos, Jose Mujica, Kim Kardashan, Mark Twain, The World Economic Forum, Uruguay's Presidential Palace
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Presidential Palace of Uruguay
“A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs,” Mark Twain once observed. (Following the Equator) He’s right, of course. Who doesn’t desire a little luxury in life? Still, some carry their aspirations too far. Kim Kardashan and her fiancé rece
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Ah Yes, I Remember Tom Sawyer Well

December 19, 2012
by Caroline Miller
Craig Brown, Gadot, Lear, Mark Twain, Rudyard Kipling, Tom Sawyer
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Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain said of Rudyard Kipling, whom he admired, “I am not acquainted with my own books, but I know Kipling’s books.” (Hello Goodbye Hello, by Craig Brown, excerpted in The Week, 11/30/12 pg. 41). His remark surprised me the moment I read it. Surely this was excessive praise
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