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On This Thanksgiving Eve Here in the United States....
On this Thanksgiving Eve here in the United States, we hereby present this courtesy the team at The Atlantic as we wish all a Happy Thanksgiving here in the United States: 9 Poems for a Tough Winter (Matt Black/Magnum) “SO PENSEROSO” BY OGDEN NASH ( AUDIO VERSION ) I do not wish to be blithe, / I wish to recoil and writhe. / I will revel in cosmic woe, / And I want my woe to show. This one will straighten you out. The great Ogden Nash, 1902–71, was a fiercely innovative poet who consecrated his art to the entertainment of the masses—and carried on being fiercely innovative. No one was wittier, no one was more verbally adroit, yet he had no meanness or spikiness; he was adored by that shy beast, the general reader. “So Penseroso” is a loving, piercing send-up of a certain strain of indulgent melancholia—to which we’re all prone right now, let’s face it. You will feel both accurately diagnosed and much, much better. — James Parke r, staff writer “ MY HOUSE ” BY NIKKI GIOVANNI ...
Notations From the Grid (Weekly Edition): On The History of Our World
Please enjoy this on the state of the fight against COVID from our archives courtesy Bloomberg: Here’s the latest news from the global pandemic. Biden, Harris to make remarks on economic recovery on Monday Johnson is forced to self-isolate , hampering U.K. agenda drive Japan’s economic surge set to slow as coronavirus strikes back Is Moderna’s Vaccine a Game-Changer? Moderna said its Covid-19 vaccine was 94.5% effective in a preliminary analysis of a large late-stage clinical trial, another sign that a fast-paced hunt by scientists and pharmaceutical companies is paying off with potent new tools that could help control a worsening pandemic. The highly positive readout comes just a week after a similar shot developed by Pfizer and BioNTech was found to be more than 90% effective in an interim analysis. Both shots rely on a technology called messenger RNA that has never been used to build an approved vaccine . Soon, millio...