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Towards a Working Class Bible - Nature promised man little. Many working poor rage against God for their place. The water is too deep, so we drift through life. A little more wind for the...13 hours ago
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April 27: Fireside Poetry Festival in Chagrin Falls - From our friends at Fireside Book Shop: More info: https://www.firesidebookshop.com/events/2024/4/27/fireside-book-shop-poetry-festival. Fireside Boo...1 week ago
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In Memory of Ed Ochester, Poet & Editor, RIP - We have asked Ed Ochester (above) to edit our Sunday poetry pages for the next few months. Here is one of Ed's poems: March of the Penguins The editor of N...7 months ago
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Big day today with the publication of my While the Undertaker Sleeps: Collected and New Prose Poems. It contains all of my books, plus a very large new section and a long memoir. You can find it at https://www.amazon.com/While-Undertaker-Sleeps-Peter-Johnson/dp/1952335590/ref=sr_1_1?crid=342C90A7P3DZE&keywords=While+the+Undertaker+Sleeps&qid=1685616911&sprefix=while+the+undertaker+sleeps%2Caps%2C147&sr=8-1 - The post Big day today with the publication of my While the Undertaker Sleeps: Collected and New Prose Poems. It contains all of my books, plus a very la...10 months ago
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“In spite of all the learned have said ...” - Philip Freneau Philip Freneau (1752-1852) was a journalist and poet in the early years our country was forming. And, oh, by the way, I once wrote an under...2 years ago
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Lit Youngstown Hosts Heather Dobbins & Barbara Sabol - I closing in on scheduling Lit Youngstown's 2021 First Wednesday Readers Series, and we're soon hosting the last reading of 2020. It's one of the many...3 years ago
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Jason Tandon - Born in Hartford, CT in 1975, Jason Tandon is the author of four books of poetry, including *The Actual World*, *Quality of Life*, and *Give Over the Hec...3 years ago
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Announcing the 7th Annual Self-Published E-Book Awards Winners - Congratulations to the winners of the 6th Annual Self-Published E-Book Awards! Grand Prize Steel Hand, Cold Heart by Rachel Menard (rachelm...3 years ago
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the dance of conquest is going to have to wait | museum of memory - . [image: Refugee, Tzasac, Guatemala, 83 | by Marcelo Montecino] *Refugee, Tsazac, Guatemala, 83*: photo by Marcelo Montecino, 6 September 2014 [image: R...5 years ago
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Let Yourself Be Awesome: On Overcoming Disappointment - On Saturday, I completed my first 12-mile run since 2005, and I aced it. My overall pace was 8:02 per mile, but the final two miles were in 7:44 and 7:49--...6 years ago
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Voices in Italian Americana reviews Paola Corso’s “The Laundress Catches Her Breath” - Paola Corso’s poems about women’s work and lives bring to life an intimate and fragile world without a hint of sentimentality. Take “Step by Step with the ...7 years ago
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One year gone ... - *Meeting Mark Mothersbaugh* Today marks one year as editor of *Fresh Water *for me. Man-o-man, what a ride it has been. Despite the intensity of the job, o...7 years ago
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I'm still here - Just posting here to let anyone know (whoever is still dropping by from time to time) that I still haven't disappeared, I've just been spending time away f...7 years ago
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2015 Mini Gift Guide - A mini last-minute gift guide...it's been quite some time since I've posted. But I love the holidays so much and sharing gifts that I think would be great ...8 years ago
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In a Landscape - The Playlist - John Cage, “In a Landscape” Bob Dylan, “My Back Pages” Neil Young, “Ambulance Blues” The Twilight Zone Theme Babylon 5 Theme Simon & Garfunkel, “Richard Co...9 years ago
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4 comments:
Mysteriously mysterious.
G.S. actually wrote that on her exam, and didn't do her exam,
and WJ responded as stated.
I think he gave her an A.
Those dang easy graders have got a lot to apologize for.
Once in high school I had a social studies class that was taught by two teachers together. They both had fairly left-liberal politics, and the class discussions were pretty lively at times. They were very big on encouraging their students to question accepted ideas and authority. This was in the spring of 1970.
At the beginning of the quarter they told the class that our main work for the quarter would be to do one large research paper, and turn it in at the end of the quarter -- they said that anyone who didn't do the assignment would get an F for the class.
I took active part in the class discussions, but I didn't do the required paper -- at the end of the quarter, instead of turning in the paper, I gave them a short handwritten note saying that I refused to do the paper because doing such a research paper wasn't relevant to anything, and I objected to teachers requiring students to do any work in general.
They gave me a C for the quarter (not an F). It was the last quarter of the year, and I didn't find out the grade I got until my report card arrived in the mail during summer vacation, so I didn't ever ask why they hadn't given me an F as they'd threatened for anyone who didn't do the paper. I've always more or less assumed that it was because actually giving someone an F for an act of protest would have exposed a level of hypocrisy in their politics. Though maybe they just decided it would be more trouble than it was worth.
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On the jacket of one of Gertrude Stein's book that Random House published, the publisher Bennett Cerf wrote (this isn't an exact quote, but something pretty close), "I have to admit that I don't fully understand what Gertrude Stein is doing in this book. This, Miss Stein informs me, is because I am dumb." He went on to add a couple of additional comments about the virtues of the book.
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