Thought our reader is once again Sally gross and we begin with what did they release I give you 3 quotations to choose from but which one was what they actually said if at all Ken Chang the much quoted on this program Dorothy Parker famously made a comment on being told of the death of the u.s. President Calvin Coolidge did she say one good career move. Or 2 it s not an event it s a news item or 3 how can they tell. I think there really is the most personally coming for 3 Yeah you re right sometimes rendered as how did they know silent cow Coolidge was famous for not saying anything or indeed not doing anything Moe might have been Louis people often attribute remarks to Mark Twain when there is absolutely no evidence that he actually said them of these 3 which do you think he actually said it could be all 3 or it could be none 1st 2 on the report of my death has been grossly exaggerated 2nd one if I can t smoke in heaven then I simply won t go. And 3rd one ally travels around the worl
Into the streets for almost 2 months now demanding change overnight protesters clashed with security forces security forces used rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse the demonstrators and they say the protesters were throwing rocks at police around 46 people were taken to the hospital according to the Lebanese civil defense and Red Cross Lebanon is facing one of its worst economic crises in decades and the protesters accuse the ruling class who ve been in power for 3 decades of mismanagement and corruption emanating on n.p.r. News Beirut officials in Bangladesh say at least 10 people were killed in a fire at a factory outside Bangladesh is capital today the 2nd deadly factory fire in the area and less than a week the fire broke out in the luxury fan factory in the Gaza poor area outside of Dhaka 10 bodies were recovered after firefighters brought the blaze under control this is n.p.r. News. Protests in India s capital turned violent today with demonstrators clashing with police and
The league player get. Plenty of player. a budget for that musical interlude We now want to return folks to the in progress push of a radio archives broadcast that will go to 9 o clock please stay tuned and donate if you can. In 1960 Pacifica was there on the March from Selma to Montgomery Alabama it took a month to strategize and actually get across the bridge and get to Montgomery but the result of that summer was the Voter Rights Act well that I know well you were there you see that s the thing Pacifica was there the entire time not just when the fun stuff was happening for the National t.v. Cameras but I understand how this whole you know on the ground work together that stuff you can t get anywhere and it s moving it s powerful but it s what let me get let me ask you amazing So let me ask you what the voter shenanigans going on today did the Scalia decision majority decision that gutted the Voting Rights Act that allowed. Local municipalities to to obstruct the the possibility
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P.B. s dot org slash p.c. This is k. P.b.s. Sandiego k 206 AC lawyer and k.q. Vo on this week s San Diego Symphony radio broadcast a cornucopia of Americana. The use of the shaker tune Simple Gifts was a capstone to Aaron Copland s Appalachian Spring ballet of 1984 today the San Diego some funny led by guest conductor Stephen Sloane offers a performance of the or trustful suite taken from the full length ballet composed for the dance company of Martha Graham following the couple and his music by the pioneer of American music Charles eyes and his composition the unanswered question featuring a lonely trumpet over a choir of hushed strangers this concert also commemorates the music of Leonard Bernstein starting with Norma show Reeves Leonard has some phonics sketch that captures the iconic conductor and composer s wit and personality and music on the 2nd half the age of anxiety Bernstein s 2nd Symphony featuring pianist coyly Shaw. I m Douglas Dillon welcome to this program celebrating