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Ernest Hemingway on safari in Africa
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Ernest Hemingway writing at campsite in Kenya
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Ernest Hemingway at the Finca Vigia, Cuba 1946
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Ernest and Mary Hemingway at the Finca Vigia, Cuba
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Ernest Hemingway aboard the Pilar 1950
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Ernest Hemingway at the Finca Vigia, Cuba
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Ernest Hemingway's baby picture
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Ernest Hemingway with family, 1905
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Ernest Hemingway fishing at Walloon Lake, Michigan, 1916
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Ernest Hemingway portrait 1918
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Ernest Hemingway at Oak Park, Illinois 1919
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Ernest Hemingway wedding photograph September 3, 1921
9-3-1921
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Ernest Hemingway in London at Dorchester Hotel 1944
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Ernest Hemingway aboard the Pilar 1935
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Ernest Hemingway and others with marlin July, 1934
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"The Sun Also Rises" manuscript notebook
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Ernest Hemingway holding his son 1927
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Ernest Hemingway with Lauren Bacall in Spain
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Ernest and Martha Hemingway photograph, 1941
Photograph of Ernest and Martha Hemingway with Chinese Army Officers.
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Ernest Hemingway with Colonel Charles T. (Buck) Lanham September 18, 1944
9-18-1944
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Saul Bellow
1-1-1700
Photograph of Saul Bellow, author of such works as Adventures of Augie March, Herzog, and Mr. Sammler's Planet.
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"L'il Abner", a Comic Strip by Al Capp
3-5-1970
A portion of a "L'il Abner" comic strip by Al Capp. In it, Capp mocks Margaret Mead's position on the legalization of marijuana by depicting a "lady anthropologist" who says that heroin is harmless for children.
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The Man Who Fanned Casey
Casey At the Bat (Sequel)
1-1-1908
Rigby Bell recites the poem, The man who fanned Casey, the less famous sequel to Casey at the bat. With comments by William Wedge.


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Canon Fleming Recites, "The Charge of the Light Brigade"
1-1-1910
Canon Fleming recites Tennyson's poem, "The Charge of the Light Brigade."


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Perspective #113 Interview with Saul Bellow
8-4-1965
Topics discussed include mass culture, the realistic tradition, Bellow's novel Herzog, the National Book Award, American culture and intellectualism, intellectual isolation, democracy and art, individual and group life, and university revolts.


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Statement of United States Information Agency Director Edward R. Murrow to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
1-1-1700
Murrow talks about the direction and purpose of the United States Information Agency, which is to make American policy 'everywhere intelligible and, wherever possible, palatable.'


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Dupont Show with Ernest Hemingway
10-1-1961
This recording features a biographical sketch and survey of Hemingway's works. There is a first-person voice in places but it is not clear whether it is Hemingway's.


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Hemingway talks about the loneliness of the writer (Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech 1954)
1-1-1700
This is part of Hemingway's speech about the loneliness of the writer. It is not clear whether it is him talking or not.


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Ernest Hemingway
Biographies in Sound, no. 4
12-11-1955
This recording opens with clips describing Hemingway and with Marlon Brando reading from "The Old Man and the Sea." The recording continues with a mix of biographical information, anecdotes, and critical appraisals of Hemingway's work. Highlights include excerpts from the Kansas City Star style sheet, parodies of Hemingway's writing and Max Eastman's account of a fight he and Hemingway got into in Max Perkins's Scribner's office. The recording ends with a recitation of Hemingway's Nobel Prize acceptance speech. It appears that Hemingway himself reads the speech.


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Interview with Tom Lynch
Part Six
1-22-2002
Lynch talks about poetry as ritual, and compares it to funerals as a way of explaining how poetry aids him as an undertaker.


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Tom Lynch Gives a Poetry Reading
Part Three
1-22-2002
Lynch reads a poem containing brilliant imagry of autumn and a single moment of time.


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Walter Lippman Discussing Foreign and Domestic Affairs
2-22-1965
Lippman gives a frank assessment of the war in Vietnam. He calls it a Civil War and evaluates President Johnson's options. This includes a consideration of the Soviet Union and China. After that, the discussion turns to the American relationship with Western Europe. Topics include America's diminishing leadership role, European unification (between East and West), German reunification, de Gaulle's France, life after Khrushchev, the Labor Party in Britain, and Churchill's funeral. Next, Lippman discusses domestic issues. Topics include Johnson's presidency, the Great Society, civil rights, Johnson himself, and the makeup of Congress. The talk concludes with the United Nations and US involvement abroad.


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