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	<title>Food for the Spirit and the Soul &#187; Books, Movies, Music, and Television</title>
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	<description>Because the diverse parts of human nature need to be nourished in different ways.</description>
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		<title>A Great Day For Book Lovers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:33:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Neralich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Born 25 January 1874 – W. Somerset Maugham, English playwright and novelist. While “Of Human Bondage” is inarguably Maugham’s masterpiece, I recommend that everyone should also read “The Razor’s Edge,” since the novel will speak forcefully to people grown weary of living in a time when mindless consumerism, crackpot religion, and venomous politics have become [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Confronting the Actualities</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 01:47:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Neralich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[21 January 1983 – American writer Anthony Hecht wins the Bollingen Prize for Poetry. Hecht, a schoolmate of Jack Kerouac in New York, became interested in poetry while attending Bard College. However, the defining moments for his life and art came during his experiences in combat during World War II, especially what he encountered while [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We&#8217;ve Been Warned</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 01:35:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Neralich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Died 21 January 1950 – George Orwell, an English author who wrote, “All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.” I invite you to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thalia, The Muse of Comedy, Is Smiling Today</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 19:42:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Neralich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Born 18 January 1892 &#8211; Oliver Hardy, an American comic actor who was, along with Stan Laurel, a member of the famous Laurel and Hardy team. Ollie and Stan were among the few movie stars to make a successful transition from the silent to the sound era, and I have three recommendations for my readers. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Heeding the Call</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 00:44:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Neralich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Born 12 January 1876 &#8211; Jack London, American author, journalist, and social activist. I concede that there is some merit in the criticism that London was not especially adept at handling long narratives, such as the novel, but in his masterpiece, “The Call of the Wild,” he achieves a poetic grandeur that transcends the strictures [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wes Studi and the Rules of Cinematic Greatness</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 20:03:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Neralich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Born 17 December 1947 &#8211; Wes Studi, a Cherokee actor who has received much-merited praise for his screen portrayals of Native Americans. Studi has appeared in &#8220;Dances with Wolves,&#8221; &#8220;The Last of the Mohicans,&#8221; &#8220;Geronimo: An American Legend,&#8221; and &#8220;Pow-Wow Highway.&#8221; While most of these facts about Studi are well-known, few individuals recall that he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Pensive Occasion for Those Who Love Both the English Language and Human Intelligence</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 17:23:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Neralich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Died 13 December 1784 &#8211; Samuel Johnson, English poet, essayist, literary critic, biographer, and lexicographer. Johnson was the author of the first definitive dictionary in the history of the English language, and his contributions to our literary heritage are immense. One does not read Johnson merely to learn his opinions on various subjects, but rather [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yaketayakking in the Supernatural Darkness:  Allen Ginsberg and &#8220;Howl&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 21:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Neralich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It&#8217;s that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that&#8217;s what the poet does.&#8221; Allen Ginsberg 7 October 1955 &#8211; Allen Ginsberg gives his first public reading of &#8220;Howl&#8221; at the Six Gallery in San Francisco. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A New Nobel Laureate</title>
		<link>http://www.robertneralich.com/2011/10/06/a-new-nobel-laureate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 00:46:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Neralich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Congratulations to Tomas Transtromer, a Swedish poet who was today awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature. The Academy said it recognized Transtromer &#8220;because, through his condensed, translucent images, he gives us fresh access to reality.&#8221; Here is Transtromer&#8217;s poem &#8220;Midwinter,&#8221; which is fairly typical of his bleak but elegant work: &#8220;A blue light radiates [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If Your Soul Thirsts For Beauty:  Solomon Popoli Linda</title>
		<link>http://www.robertneralich.com/2011/10/04/if-your-soul-thirsts-for-beauty-solomon-popoli-linda/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 00:56:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Neralich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Solomon Popli Linda (1909-1982), also known as Solomon Ntsele, was a South African Zulu musician, singer, and composer who wrote &#8220;Mbube,&#8221; which is better-known as &#8220;The Lion Sleeps Tonight.&#8221; Solomon first recorded the a cappella song with his group the Evening Birds in 1939 as &#8220;Wimoweh,&#8221; and, despite some claims to the contrary, he insisted [...]]]></description>
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