Greatest love songs ever: #36 “Blue Moon”
By Tom Quiner Even younger readers are familiar with Rodgers and Hammerstein. But few knew that Lorenz Hart was Richard Rodger’s lyricist before Oscar Hammerstein II. Hart’s lyrics had a different feel, as showcased in…
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“I had an abortion yesterday.”
“Nah … I can’t go for a run today because I had an abortion yesterday.” Thus begins an extraordinary scene from the 2015 HBO series, “Girls.” Mimi-Rose (Gillian Jacobs) stuns her lover, Adam (Adam Driver)…
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Greatest love songs ever: #37 “What’ll I Do?”
By Tom Quiner This lovely song was written 102 years ago by one of the great American songwriters, Irving Berlin. The 1920s was a decade of dazzling creativity, rivaled only by the creative output of…
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Cringe-worthy journalism wins a Pulitzer Prize
ProPublica won a Pulitzer Prize for journalism for its “urgent” series on “pregnant women who died after doctors delayed urgently needed care for fear of violating vague ‘life of mother’ exceptions in states with strict…
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Greatest love songs ever: #38 “All I Ask of You”
By Tom Quiner “All I Ask of You” is a soaring operatic pop love song that explores a different aspect of love than the previous songs on my list of the ’52 Greatest Love Songs…
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Greatest love songs ever: #39 “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face”
By Tom Quiner I’m not a big fan of the notion of ‘love at first sight.’ ‘Like’ at first sight … or ‘infatuation’ at first sight, that makes sense. Love is more than emotion alone,…
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Did you miss it?
If you missed Pulse Life Advocate’s “Evening of Glory” event on May 2nd, you can still support our pro-life student scholarship fund. To recap the evening, we assembled a diverse group of Catholic musicians from…
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Greatest love songs ever: #40 L-O-V-E
By Tom Quiner What’s the difference between Nat King Cole’s rendition of “L-O-V-E” and Olivia Rodriguez’s song of the same title? Cole’s is still being sung 59 years since its 1965 debut. And it’ll be…
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“The world will be won by beauty”
This life is so beautiful. Yes, we know all about war, disease, abortion and man’s inhumanity and apathy regarding his fellow man. We also know of courageous heroes who risked life and limb saving others…
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Greatest love songs ever: #41 “I’ve Got It Bad (and That Ain’t Good)”
By Tom Quiner Love isn’t always pretty. Duke Ellington’s “I’ve Got It Bad (and That Ain’t Good)” is our second ‘torch song’ in our list of “52 Greatest Love Songs Ever.” “Stormy Weather” was our…
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