Tuesday, March 26, 2024

Born on this day – Leonard Nimoy:


Leonard Nimoy

Actor

Director

Singer

Photographer

Writer

March 26, 1931 – February 27, 2015

Born on this day – Strother Martin:


Strother Martin

Actor

March 26, 1919 – August 1, 1980

Born on this day – Sterling Hayden:


Sterling Hayden

Actor

Writer

March 26, 1916 – May 23, 1986


Credits:

The Blue and the Gray (1982); Venom (1981); Gas (1981); 9 to 5 (1980); The Outsider (1979); Winter Kills (1979); King of the Gypsies (1978); The Godfather Saga (1977); 1900 (1976); Is It Any Wonder? (1975); Cry, Onion (1975); Deadly Strangers (1975); Banacek (1972); The Final Programme (1973); The Starlost (1973); The Long Goodbye (1973); Le grand départ (1972); The Godfather (1972); Angel's Leap (1971); Loving (1970); Ternos Caçadores (1969); Hard Contract (1969); Carol for Another Christmas (1964); Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964); The DuPont Show of the Month (1957); Goodyear Theatre (1958); The Eighty Yard Run (Playhouse 90) (1957–1958); Ten Days to Tulara (1958); Terror in a Texas Town (1958); Schlitz Playhouse (1954–1958); General Electric Theater (1957); Zero Hour! (1957); Wagon Train (1957); Gun Battle at Monterey (1957); Valerie (1957); The Iron Sheriff (1957); Zane Grey Theatre (1957); Crime of Passion (1956); 5 Steps to Danger (1956); Celebrity Playhouse (1956); The Killing (1956); The Come On (1956); Top Gun (1955); The Last Command (1955); Shotgun (1955); The Eternal Sea (1955); Timberjack (1955); Battle Taxi (1955); Suddenly (1954); Naked Alibi (1954); Johnny Guitar (1954); Arrow in the Dust (1954); Prince Valiant (1954); Fighter Attack (1953); So Big (1953); The Philip Morris Playhouse (1953); Crime Wave (1953); Take Me to Town (1953); Kansas Pacific (1953); The Star (1952); Flat Top (1952); The Golden Hawk (1952); Hellgate (1952); Denver & Rio Grande (1952); Flaming Feather (1952); Journey Into Light (1951); The Asphalt Jungle (1950); Manhandled (1949); El Paso (1949); Variety Girl (1947); Blaze of Noon (1947); Bahama Passage (1941); Virginia (1941).

Born on this day – Viktor Frankl:


Viktor Frankl

Neurologist

Psychiatrist

Writer

Holocaust survivor

March 26, 1905 – September 2, 1997

Credits:

Man's Search for Meaning (1946); Man's Search for Ultimate Meaning (1997); On the Theory and Therapy of Mental Disorders (2004); Psychotherapy and Existentialism (1967); The Doctor and the Soul (1955); The Unheard Cry for Meaning (2011); The Will to Meaning (1988); Viktor Frankl Recollections: An Autobiography (2000); Yes to Life: In Spite of Everything (2020).

Born on this day – Robert Frost:


Robert Frost

Writer

March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963

Credits:

Books and plays:

30 Press Presents: Classic Horror Poems Volume One (2023); A Boy's Will (1913); A Masque Of Reason (1945); A Prayer in Spring (2011); Baseball: a Literary Anthology (2002); Birches (1916); Blueberries (2014); Christmas Trees (1990); Collected Poems, Prose, and Plays (1995); Come in and Other Poems (2000); Dark (2000); In the Clearing (1957); Mountain Interval (1916); New Hampshire (1923); North of Boston (1914); O Taste and See: Food Poems (2003); Selected Poems (1955); Selected Poems of Robert Frost (1955); Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (1969); Swinger of Birches (1961); The Caedmon Treasury of Modern Poets Reading Their Own Poetry (1992); The Collected Poems of Robert Frost (1930); The Collected Prose (2008); The Letters of Robert Frost, Volume 1 (2014); The Letters of Robert Frost, Volume 2 (2016); The Poetry of Robert Frost (1930); The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart (1992); The Road Not Taken (1916); The Road Not Taken and Other Poems (1916); The Robert Frost Collection (2011); The Runaway (1998); Versed in Country Things (1996); Writers At Work: The Paris Review Interviews (1957); You Come Too (1916).

Poem titles:

A Blue Ribbon at Amesbury; A Brook in the City; A Cabin in the Clearing; A Concept Self-Conceived; A Considerable Speck; A Dream Pang; A Drumlin Woodchuck; A Girl's Garden; A Hundred Collars; A Late Walk; A Leaf Treader; A Line-storm Song; A Lone Striker; A Minor Bird; A Missive Missile; A Never Naught Song; A Passing Glimpse; A Patch of Old Snow; A Peck of Gold; A Prayer in Spring; A Record Stride; A Reflex; A Roadside Stand; A Servant to Servants; A Soldier; A Star In A Stone Boat; A Time to Talk; A Trial Run; A Winter Eden; A Wishing Well; Acceptance; Accidentally on Purpose; Acquainted with the Night; Acquainted with the Night; After Apple-Picking; After-Flakes; All Revelation; America is Hard to See; An Afterword; An Encounter; An Old Man's Winter Night; Asking for Roses; Assertive; At Woodward's Gardens; Atmosphere; Auspex; Away!; Bereft; Birches; Blueberries; Bond and Free; Brown's Descent, or the Willy-nilly Slide; Build Soil; But Outer Space; Canis Major; Choose Something Like a Star; Christmas Trees; Clear and Colder; Closed for Good; Come In; Cranberries at Noon; Departmental; Desert Places; Design; Devotion; Directive; Does No One at All Ever Feel This Way in the Least?; Dust in the Eyes; Dust of snow; Ends; Escapist – Never; Etherealizing; Evil Tendencies Cancel; Fire and Ice; Fireflies in the Garden; Flower-gathering; For John F. Kennedy His Inauguration; For Once, Then, Something; Forgive O, Lord; Four-Room Shack; Fragmentary Blue; From Iron; Gathering Leaves; Ghost; Going for Water; Good Hours; Hannibal; Happiness Makes Up In Height For What It Lacks In Length; Home Burial; How Hard Is It to Keep from Being King When It's in You and in the Situation; Hyla Brook; I Will Sing You One; Immigrants; In A Disused Graveyard; In a Glass of Cider; In a Vale; In Divés' Dive; In Equal Sacrifice; In Neglect; In the Home Stretch; In Time of Cloudburst; In Winter in the Woods; Into My Own; Iris by Night; It Takes All Sorts; Kitty Hawk; Leaves Compared with Flowers; Lines Written in Dejection on the Eve of a Great Success; Locked Out; Lodged; Lost in Heaven; Love and a Question; Meeting and Passing; Mending Wall; Misgiving; Moon Compasses; Mowing; My Butterfly; My November Guest; Neither Out Far nor in Deep; Never Again Would Birds' Song Be the Same; New Hampshire; Not All There; Not Quite Social; Nothing Gold Can Stay; Now Close the Windows; October; Of the Stones of the Place; On a Bird Winging in its Sleep; On a Tree Fallen Across the Road (To Hear Us Talk); On Being Chosen Poet of Vermont; On Going Unnoticed; On Looking Up by Chance at the Constellations; On Taking from the Top to Broaden the Base; On the Heart's Beginning to Cloud the Mind; Once by the Pacific; One Guess; One More Brevity; Our Doom to Bloom; Out, Out; Pan with Us; Paul's Wife; Pea Brush; Peril of Hope; Pertinax; Pod of the Milkweed; Precaution; Provide, Provide; Putting in the Seed; Quandary; Questioning Faces; Range-Finding; Reluctance; Revelation; Riders; Rose Pogonias; Sand Dunes; Sitting by a Bush in Broad Sunlight; Skeptic; Snow; Some Science Fiction; Spoils of the Dead; Spring Pools; Stars; Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening; Storm Fear; Taken Doubly; Taken Singly; Ten mills; The Aim Was Song; The Andes; The Armful; The Axe-Helve; The Bad Island – Easter; The Bear; The Bearer of Evil Tidings; The Birthplace; The Black Cottage; The Bonfire; The Cocoon; The Code; The Cow in Apple Time; The Death of the Hired Man; The Demiurge's Laugh; The Discovery of the Madeiras; The Door in the Dark; The Draft Horse; The Egg and the Machine; The Exposed Nest; The Fear; The Figure in the Doorway; The Flood; The Flower Boat; The Freedom of the Moon; The Generations of Men; The Gift Outright; The Gold Hesperidee; The Grind-Stone; The Gum-Gatherer; The Hardship of Accounting; The Hill Wife; The Himalayas; The Housekeeper; The Investment; The Last Mowing; The Last Word of a Blue Bird; The Lesson for Today; The Line-Gang; The Lovely Shall Be Choosers; The Malverns; The Master Speed; The Milky Way Is a Cowpath; The Moon; The Most of It; The Mountain; The Need of Being Versed in Country Things; The Objection to Being Stepped on; The Old Barn at the Bottom of the Fogs; The Onset; The Outlands; The Oven Bird; The Pasture; The Pauper Witch of Grafton; The Peaceful Shepherd; The Road Not Taken; The Rose Family; The Self-seeker; The Silken Tent; The Sound of Trees; The Span of Life; The Star Splitter; The Strong Are Saying Nothing; The Subverted Flower; The Telephone; The Thatch; The Times Table; The Trial by Existence; The Tuft of Flowers; The Vanishing Red; The Vantage Point; The Vindictives; The White-Tailed Hornet; The Witch of Coos; The Wood-pile; The Wrights' Biplane; There Are Roughly Zones; They Were Welcome to Their Belief; To A Moth Seen In Winter; To a Thinker; To Earthward; To the Thawing Wind; Tree at My Window; Two Look at Two; Two Tramps in Mud Time; Unharvested; Version; Voice Ways; Waiting Afield at Dusk; Waspish; We Vainly Wrestle; West-Running Brook; What Fifty Said; Why Wait for Science; Wind and Window Flower.

National Spinach Day - March 26:


National Spinach Day

March 26

Harper Lee, on writing:


Writing is a process of self-discipline you must learn before you can call yourself a writer.

There are people who write, but I think they’re quite different from people who must write.

– Harper Lee.