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OUTSPOKEN; A Conversation With Anthony Woods Former soldier, out of the closet
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With California Democrat Ellen Tauscher heading to the State
Department, former Army captain and West Point grad Anthony Woods
has set his sights on her congressional seat. After two tours in
Iraq, Woods came out of the closet and had to leave the military.
Outlook's Rachel Dry spoke with him about the Obama administration's
position on gay rights, the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall riots
and why "don't ask, don't tell" is the least of the president's
problems. Excerpts: Why did you decide to come out?
That was one of the toughest choices I had to make in my entire
life. I struggled with ...
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Marianne Moore (not) at the Polo Grounds.
Magazine article from: ANQ
; ...Charles Molesworth retells an anecdote from Alfred Kreymborg's 1925 memoir Troubador. Kreymborg tells how he was at a loss for subjects on...at the Polo Grounds in upper Manhattan. Kreymborg expected her to be bemused by the ball game...
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Morals, Manners, and "Marriage": Marianne Moore's Art of Conversation.
Magazine article from: Twentieth Century Literature
; ...information is the subject of the second anecdote, told by Alfred Kreymborg: Never having found [Moore] at a loss on any subject...Moore the flattering recognition of her peers, in Kreymborg's story it functions more aggressively: her "battalions...
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The People He Met
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post
; ...with precision, care, and compassion. Meeting with Alfred Kreymborg, relic of the l920s, Elman ruefully discloses himself...When I was young, I could not imagine myself in Kreymborg's shoes. Now, past middle age, with so many books...
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When We Were Very Young
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...riveted, of course. He also proffered Mushrooms by Alfred Kreymborg-he read me a poem from that collection beginning...Wherefore is life, think you?" I have never come across Kreymborg's poems since. Conrad introduced me to Gertrude...
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Marianne Moore: A Literary Life.
Magazine article from: The New Leader
; ...the 1920s, after she had moved to New York, editor Alfred Kreymborg decided to stump her. Figuring that her sheltered...literary matters right up to the first pitch. As Kreymborg's 1925 autobiography, Troubador, tells it, he...
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Commentary: Remembering writers who passed away this year
Transcript from: NPR All Things Considered
; ...in my lifetime. Gene Derwood; Lloyd Frankenberg; Alfred Hayes; Coman Leavenworth; John Thompson Jr. `But...Rice; H. Phelps Putnam; William Ellery Leonard; Alfred Kreymborg. `And one great secret is simply this: How taken...
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A Margery Latimer checklist.
Magazine article from: The Review of Contemporary Fiction
; ...1932; Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press, 1971. "Letters to Georgia O'Keeffe.' The New Caravan. Ed. Alfred Kreymborg, Lewis Mumford, and Paul Rosenfeld. New York: Norton, 1936. 488-93. Guardian Angel and Other Stories [collected...
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Form, function, and creative tension in 'Cane': Jean Toomer and the need for the avant-garde.
Magazine article from: MELUS
; ...Toomer as he composed Cane. One force was immediate: his circle of literary friends and acquaintances, Hart Crane, Alfred Kreymborg, Paul Rosenfeld, Gorham Munson, Lola Ridge - an editor of Broom magazine - and Waldo Frank - his mentor (Kerman...
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Veterans Day: Amid more conflict
Newspaper article from: Charleston Gazette
; ...cemetery at Gettsyburg, 1863 *** "Doughboys were paid a whole dollar a day/ and received free burial under the clay/ And movie heroes are paid even more/ shooting one another in a Hollywood war." - Alfred Kreymborg, What Price Gl
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Birthday words...(Astrology)
Newspaper article from: The Mirror (London, England)
; "The sky is that beautiful old parchment in which the Sun and Moon keep their diary." - American poet Alfred Kreymborg, born this day in 1883. "The love of our neighbour is the only door out of the dungeon of self." - Scottish novelist George MacDonald, born this day in 1824.
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