Arts Jan 29 "To Urania" by Joseph Brodsky Joseph Brodsky emigrated to the United States after being expelled from his native Russia in 1972.
Arts Dec 11 Oliver Sacks In 1989, not long after Oliver Sacks wrote the bestseller, “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat,” and just before his 1973 memoir “Awakenings” made its movie debut starring Robin Williams, “The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour” interviewed the famed neurologist.
Nation Jun 29 Tempers Flare In Lines for Gasoline in 1979 This MacNeil/Lehrer Report piece highlights the anguish caused by gas shortages at a station in Queens, New York in 1979.