Will be watching CNN this evening, from 9-10 p.m. (Eastern time). The network is airing one of its "special report" broadcasts; tonight's is titled "Rising Hate: Antisemitism in America."
The program's
host is the excellent reporter and political analyst Dana Bash. She is
CNN's chief political correspondent; she is also the co-anchor, with
Jake Tapper, of the Sunday morning program State of the Union.
Today's House testimony from Cassidy Hutchinson--who served in the White
House as a top aide to Mark Meadows, Donald Trump's last chief of
staff--was remarkable, riveting; it felt akin to the 1973 appearances by John Dean
and Alexander Butterfield, in front of the Senate Watergate panel.
A while ago I read the poem "Music," in the 1964 book Lunch Poems, by Frank O'Hara (City Lights Books).
The poem, the first in the book, is dated 1953. Mr. O'Hara died in 1966, at age forty, two years after Lunch Poems was published.
There is a phrase in the poem--just part of a sentence--which has stayed with me; I have re-read it several times.
Mr. O'Hara wrote:
It's like a locomotive on the march, the season
of distress and clarity
The image, below, is of the front page of New York's Daily Mirror, a tabloid paper, from D-Day, June 6, 1944 (seventy-eight years ago today).
I've had the newspaper (along with other newspapers about D-Day) for decades--probably fifty-plus years.
At some point (as is perhaps evident, in the image), the front page separated from the rest of the paper. Also, at some point, the page itself split in half, around the area of the fold.
I believe--I am not certain of this--that the group of newspapers was given to me by my maternal grandparents.
Am eager to watch, tonight, the second (and concluding) two hours of Ken Burns's new PBS documentary, "Benjamin Franklin."
The program's first two hours, last night, were outstanding.
Here is a link to the organization CARE's Ukraine Crisis Fund: