Led astray by Suessian melody

by David Benjamin “Out of the corner of his eye Gatsby saw that the blocks of the sidewalks really formed a ladder and mounted to a secret place above the trees—he could climb to it, if he climbed alone, and once there he could suck on the pap of life, gulp down the incomparable milk…

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She doesn’t know Irv is Jewish

by David Benjamin MADISON, Wis.—The Achilles heel of the polling industry was exposed, once again, in a recent revelation that British young people are not, after all, flocking to the churches, chapels, synagogues and mosques of England. The kids are, in fact, just as agnostic, atheist and apostate as ever they’ve been. The press erroneously…

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Bring your kids to Paris …

by David Benjamin “Ah! well a-day! what evil looks Had I from old and young! Instead of the cross, the Albatross About my neck was hung.” —Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner PARIS—It’s a typical café restaurant in the Latin Quarter, whose breakfast fare largely consists—unless challenged—of coffee brewed in a magnificent,…

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The Big Distraction from You-Know-What

by David Benjamin “And when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab ’em by the pussy.” —Trump PARIS—Luckily, I was on my way here when Donald Trump’s weekend excursion to Iran broke out. My good fortune amounted to the limited load of available news coverage, analysis and commentary through…

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