Over the weekend I stayed with a former Slovenian exchange student and his foster mother and learned about their moving story.
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Tag Archives: Slovenia
V-E Day, Whitman, and My 15 Minutes
My 15 minutes: during Slovenia’s 1995 V-E Day celebration I read Walt Whitman to a national television audience.
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Reading Whitman: My 15 Minutes of Fame
My 15 minutes of fame came when I read Walt Whitman’s “Oh Captain, My Captain” to the people of Slovenia. The occasion was the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II. As today is D-Day, it seems a good time to tell the story.
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At Films Abroad, Why Do I Laugh Alone?
Film Friday Vic: What film are we talking about? Lin: Does it matter what film? Vic: Of course it does. Lin: You choose then. Friday night. Not in a foreign language, ok. You don’t go to the movies to read. […]
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