5:
"Those hours that with gentle work did frame
The lovely gaze where every eye doth dwell
Will play the tyrants to the very same,
And that unfair which fairly doth excel;
For never-resting Time leads summer on
To hideous winter, and confounds him there,
Sap checked with frost and lusty leaves quite gone,
Beauty o'er-snowed and bareness everywhere.
Then, were not summer's distillation left
A liquid prisoner pent in walls of glass,
Beauty's effect with beauty were bereft,
Nor it nor no remembrance what it was.
But flowers distilled, though they with winter meet,
Lose but their show; their substance still lives sweet.
6:
Then let not winter's ragged hand deface
In thee thy summer ere thou be distilled.
Make sweet some vial, treasure thou some place,
With beauty's treasure ere it be self-killed.
That use is not forbidden usury
Which happies those that pay the willing loan:
That's for thyself to breed another thee,
Or ten times happier be it ten for one;
Ten times thyself were happier than thou art,
If ten of thine ten times refigured thee--
Then what could death do if thou shoulds't depart,
Leaving thee living in posterity?
Be not self-willed, for thou art much too fair
To be death's conquest, and make worms thine heir."
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While I had intended to narrow the focus of the podcast to Art and Entertainment, I am completely transfixed by the COVID-19 pandemic and its continued societal impacts. As result, many of my interviews have unwittingly become very pandemic-centric.
In order to enable listeners to easily differentiate this content from what's intended as the main focus of The Clifton Duncan Podcast, I will deem these interviews "The COVID Series" (technically, my recent sit downs with playwright CJ Hopkins and entertainers Right Said Fred also fall into this category).
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First, here is their damning editorial, in "Unherd", from which this episode derives its title: https://www.unherd.com/2021/11/the-lefts-covid-failure/
THOMAS FAZI -- Journalist/writer/translator/socialist. He mostly spends his time in Rome, Italy. Amongst other things, he's the co-director of "Standing Army" (2010), an award-winning feature-length documentary on US military bases featuring Gore Vidal and Noam Chomsky; and the author of "The Battle for Europe: How an Elite Hijacked a Continent – and How We Can Take It Back" (Pluto Press, 2014) and "Reclaiming the State: A Progressive Vision of Sovereignty for a Post-Neoliberal World" (co-authored with Bill Mitchell; Pluto Press, 2017). His articles have appeared in numerous online and printed publications.
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TOBY GREEN -- formerly a journalist and travel writer, Toby is Professor of Precolonial and Lusophone African History and Culture at King’s College London. His 2019 book "A Fistful of Shells" won the British Academy’s Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding, the American Historical Association’s Jerry Bentley Prize in World History and the Historical Writers’ Association Non-Fiction Crown.
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A father of two young girls, "Billboard" Chris Elston is a regular guy who's embarked on a one-man crusade to spread awareness on what he feels is "the biggest child abuse scandal in history".
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Chuck Dixon is the most prolific scripter in the history of comic books, with well over 40,000 pages of comics in publication.
His work on both Batman and the "Punisher" are considered seminal to those franchises. He contributed the majority of the writing done on the legendary 'Knightfall' event for the Batman comic, which formed the basis for Christopher Nolan’s "Dark Knight" trilogy (he also co-created the iconic villain Bane, with Graham Nolan), and is also the co-creator of the Birds of Prey comic series with Jordan B. Gorfinkel.
Characters he’s created for both DC and Marvel have appeared repeatedly in movies, television, and games and his adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s "The Hobbit" remains an international bestseller thirty years after its first publication.
Chuck is also known worldwide, with comics written specifically for the European and Indian markets.
He remains a major player in the growing world of independent comics, with dozens of new titles produced in recent years, and has written more than thirty novels (including his popular "Levon Cade" series and his recent "Conan the Barbarian" novel).
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Ashley Rindsberg is an investigative journalist, author and media expert. His book "The Gray Lady Winked", about how the New York Times' misreporting changed history, started a conversation about the future, past and present of the mainstream media's flagship publication.
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Heather Mac Donald is the Thomas W. Smith Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a contributing editor of City Journal, and a New York Times bestselling author. She is a recipient of the 2005 Bradley Prize.
Mac Donald’s work at City Journal has covered a range of topics, including higher education, immigration, policing, homelessness and homeless advocacy, criminal-justice reform, and race relations. Her writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The New Republic, and The New Criterion. Mac Donald's newest book, The Diversity Delusion: How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Culture (2018), argues that toxic ideas first spread by higher education have undermined humanistic values, fueled intolerance, and widened divisions in our larger culture.
A nonpracticing lawyer, Mac Donald clerked for the Honorable Stephen Reinhardt, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and was an attorney-advisor in the Office of the General Counsel of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and a volunteer with the Natural Resources Defense Council. She has frequently testified before U.S. House and Senate Committees. In 1998, Mac Donald was appointed to Mayor Rudolph Giuliani’s task force on the City University of New York. She has received numerous awards for her writing.
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Clifton Duncan is a classically trained professional actor, who earned his MFA from New York University's prestigious Graduate Acting Program.
He's excelled in a variety of roles, in genres ranging from musical comedy to Shakespearean tragedy, and has undertaken principal roles at many of America's most respected theatres, including The Shakespeare Theatre Company, Arena Stage, The Old Globe, Yale Repertory Theatre, and Pasadena Playhouse (where he won rave reviews and an LA Ovation Award nomination for Outstanding Lead Performance in a Musical for his electrifying performance in "Ragtime").
He's also starred in multiple critically-acclaimed and award-winning shows Off-Broadway -- including Classic Stage Company's smash hit revival of "Carmen Jones", where he starred opposite two-time Tony Award winner Anika Noni Rose, under the direction of Tony-winning director John Doyle.
He made his Broadway debut as Robert Grove in the premiere American cast of the beloved British comedy "The Play that Goes Wrong" (co-produced by J.J. Abrams).
As a vocalist, he's thrilled New York audiences in intimate spaces such as Joe's Pub and Studio 54, as well as winning thunderous ovations at the 3000-seat City Center, with powerhouse performances in shows such as "Assassins" (2017) and "Hey, Look Me Over!" (2018).
On TV, he has guest-starred on multiple networks, including Starz, NBC, Fox, and CBS.
His work has been singled out in multiple publications, including Entertainment Weekly, the LA Times, The Village Voice, the Washington Post, and (repeatedly) The New York Times.
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Ethan Van Sciver is a veteran comic book artist who became a lightning rod for controversy for his outspoken support of former President Donald Trump.
Since his "cancellation", he has not only has his @ComicArtistPro Secrets YouTube channel continued to grow, but he's also launched a successful career as an independent publisher, with his crowdfunded "Cyber Frog 2: REKT Planet" raising over $1 million USD.
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