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Belying a generational divide,
#Pulitzer winners Duke Ellington and John Coltrane recorded an album with members of their bands in 1962. After recording JC's "Big Nick", he marveled: "The way [Ellington] plays, he can play anything!”#FridayFeelinghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyDZQs8jNmM … -
"Few emotions are more ephemeral in the political world than gratitude: appreciation for past favors. Far less ephemeral, however, is hope: the hope of future favors. Far less ephemeral is fear, the fear that in the future, favors may be denied.” — Robert Caro
#WednesdayWisdompic.twitter.com/ASHdImohri
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Edmund Morris' peripatetic path to the 1980 Biography
#Pulitzer (for his first volume on Theodore Roosevelt) included stints as a pianist and copywriter. In 2011, he offered a glimpse into the 26th president's life at@JFKLibrary.#TuesdayThoughtshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLgu5jcinsE …Prikaži ovu nit -
Visionary
@IUBloomington cognitive scientist Douglas Hofstadter received the Nonfiction#Pulitzer for#GodelEscherBach 40 years ago. Last summer,@WalterMyersIII examined the book's legacy in artificial intelligence for@cnaintelligence.#TuesdayThoughts https://mindmatters.ai/2019/07/we-went-back-to-visit-godel-escher-and-bach/ …pic.twitter.com/HLx5iS77s8
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"I've written some poetry I don't understand myself." An autodidactic polymath known for his impressionistic (and Pulitzer-winning) life of Lincoln, Carl Sandburg was born
#OTD in 1878. In 1961, he visited fellow Pulitzer winner#JFK at the White House.#MondayMotivationpic.twitter.com/6UVMDxXw7s
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“When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occasional cheese dip.” -"A Confederacy of Dunces" author John Kennedy Toole, born
#OTD in 1937#TuesdayThoughts#TuesdayMotivation#amwritingpic.twitter.com/ziLfBwQdYd
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“The American hero must triumph over The forces of darkness.” 1972 Poetry winner James Wright (from “Eisenhower's Visit to Franco, 1959”), born
#OTD in 1927. (Portrait by Sophie Herxheimer/@PoetryFound.)#FridayReadspic.twitter.com/AdYpuotMdE
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#Pulitzer winner George Gershwin's "An American in Paris" premiered at@carnegiehall#OTD in 1928.@GustavoDudamel conducted this rendition of the jazz-influenced suite by@LAPhil in 2011.#FridayFeelinghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGt000iascg … -
#FridayReads from@Columbia's Clean and Go Green swap: Carlos Baker's Hemingway study, the definitive work on the 1953 Fiction winner until the publication of Michael Reynolds' five-volume opus.@Princeton's Baker was also a recurring Fiction juror, ultimately serving six times.pic.twitter.com/6v1oCQKW3u
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1932 Drama winner Ira Gershwin was born
#OTD in 1896. Shortly after he released an acclaimed 1959 memoir-anthology,@franksinatra recorded "They Can't Take That Away from Me," one of many collaborations with brother and fellow Pulitzer winner George.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_JxgjJo1TI … -
“There's so much to be grateful for, words are poor things.” -"Gilead" author & 2005
#Pulitzer winner Marilynne Robinson, born#OTD in 1943#TuesdayThoughts#Thanksgiving2019pic.twitter.com/hW7O0A9jhP
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Looking for
#FridayReads? Two-time#Pulitzer winner Joseph Lelyveld on 1983 Bio finalist Richard Norton Smith's 2014 life of Nelson Rockefeller and the unlikely vice president's “unending quest for intellectual silver bullets.” https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2014/12/18/prodigal-fall-nelson-rockefeller/ …pic.twitter.com/mmAhGuEEMJ
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"Satin Doll" was the last pop hit from
#Pulitzer winner Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn. This stupendous 1966 version was recorded by the Count Basie Orchestra (conducted by@QuincyDJones) while opening for#Sinatra at the Sands.#FridayThoughtshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gWx8KEF0AE … -
"Past is past... no it's not! People are always fond of saying that, but what's past is never past; not entirely.” -- 1989 Fiction winner Anne Tyler, born
#OTD in 1941.#FridayThoughts#FridayFeelingpic.twitter.com/vJIFcHpDfH
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“I have had many successes and many failures in my life. My successes have always been for different reasons, but my failures have always been for the same reason: I said yes when I meant no.” -1937 Drama winner Moss Hart, born
#otd in 1904#ThursdayThoughts#ThursdayMotivationpic.twitter.com/4aovH7P1jC
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"My most persistent impression as a farm boy was of the earth. There was a closeness, almost an immersion, in the sand, loam, and red clay that seemed natural, and constant." -from
#JimmyCarter's memoir "An Hour Before Daylight," a 2002#Pulitzer finalist#Happy95thJimmypic.twitter.com/vKm4m1oYlK
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#Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all." -two-time#Pulitzer winner#WilliamFaulkner, born#OTD in 1897#WednesdayMotivation#WednesdayWisdompic.twitter.com/survgweTbf
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#FridayMotivation from two-time#Pulitzer winner William Faulkner: "Don’t be ‘a writer’ but instead be *writing*. Being ‘a writer’ means being stagnant. The act of writing shows movement, activity, life. When you stop moving, you’re dead."pic.twitter.com/0PTf4H7E9m
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#FridayFeeling:@itstonybennett released an album of songs by#Pulitzer winner Duke Ellington in 1999. Here's his version of "Chelsea Bridge" by Ellington and longtime collaborator Billy Strayhorn.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YATdzoGKlnk … -
ICYMI:
#Pulitzer winner#JFK's "We choose to go to the Moon" speech was delivered at@RiceUniversity on Sept. 12, 1962. Although you've doubtless seen the oft-excerpted crescendo, here's the full address via@NASA.#ThursdayThoughtshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZyRbnpGyzQ …Prikaži ovu nit
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