Win McCormack

2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Win McCormack

4 hours agoBelichick always kept tight control of his dealings and a considerable distance from the press. Then he began dating a much younger woman named Jordon Hudson. Bill Belichick, one of the winningest coaches in N.F.L. history, and currently the head football coach at the University of North Carolina at …

2 weeks ago | newrepublic.com | Win McCormack

At the start of Martin Scorsese’s 2019 documentary Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story—a film whose opening title card reads conjuring the rolling thunder revue—magician Georges Méliès drapes a blanket over a woman seated on a chair. He pulls the blanket off, and she is no longer there. Then he puts the blanket back on the chair, pulls it off again, and presto, she has reappeared.

1 month ago | newrepublic.com | Win McCormack

In my column on Bob Dylan in last month’s issue, I offered a recitation and description of what I thought were all the Dylan concerts I attended over the course of some 40 years, numbering seven in all. But after that issue went out, while reading something about Tom Petty, I realized I had strangely forgotten one of them—strangely, because it was in retrospect possibly the most enjoyable one of all.

2 months ago | newrepublic.com | Win McCormack

When my fellow classmates and I entered Harvard College in the fall of 1963, our future and the future of our nation seemed bright and full of infinite promise. The charming, handsome, and charismatic John F. Kennedy, a Harvard graduate, was president of the United States. The civil rights movement, which promised at last to give Black people in America equality, was gathering an apparently unstoppable force; the now legendary March on Washington had taken place a month earlier.

2 months ago | yahoo.com | Win McCormack

Yahoo is using AI to generate takeaways from this article. This means the info may not always match what's in the article. Reporting mistakes helps us improve the experience.Generate Key TakeawaysWhen my fellow classmates and I entered Harvard College in the fall of 1963, our future and the future of our nation seemed bright and full of infinite promise. The charming, handsome, and charismatic John F. Kennedy, a Harvard graduate, was president of the United States.