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How the Blues Unites Anglophones Across the World.

Language commentator Geoffrey Nunberg looks back on the long nights he spent in a private club in Rome where the only requirement for membership was that you be a native-English speaker. He reflects on how the language brought together people who otherwise had nothing in common.

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Fresh Air with Terry Gross, April 27, 1988: Interview with Roger Angell; Review of Ernest Bloch's album "Violin Concerto"; Interview with Alice Adams; Commentary on expatriates sharing language and…
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Roger Angell's "Season Ticket."

Baseball writer Roger Angell. His new book, Season Ticket: A Baseball Companion, is a compilation of essays published in The New Yorker magazine over the last five seasons. The essays cover subjects from spring training, Astroturf versus grass and drug abuse. Angell's previous books include The Summer Game, Five Seasons and Late Innings. Angell is the senior fiction editor of The New Yorker.

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