It also distresses me that I missed the November 10, 2014 Google tribute to the Fall of the Berlin Wall, only because I remember it well, and because I felt at that time, in 1989 on the cusp of a new decade, that humanity might do better in the ten years that would follow. Was I completely wrong? Your thoughts?
As my juniors begin to explore their 20th century poets, considering Jazz era connections, we have this: Langston Hughes' 113th Birthday. As my freshmen finish Of Mice and Men, and consider Robert Burns's poem "To a Mouse," we have this: Sorry we missed January the 25th, but we can celebrate now anyway. Let's sing Auld Lang Syne one more time just for the heck of it. It also distresses me that I missed the November 10, 2014 Google tribute to the Fall of the Berlin Wall, only because I remember it well, and because I felt at that time, in 1989 on the cusp of a new decade, that humanity might do better in the ten years that would follow. Was I completely wrong? Your thoughts?
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