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The 11-line poem, which begins: What happens to a dream deferred?
I took that to be a brilliant joke on Plath's poem "Cut" which begins "What a thrill — / My thumb instead of an onion".
Anne Kingsmill Finch, an English countess who suffered from melancholia, wrote a poem entitled, "The Spleen," in 1713, which begins: What art thou, SPLEEN, which ev'ry thing dost ape?
The State Department refers to Post's thwarted last wish as "a dream deferred" ― a bizarre evocation of Langston Hughes' 1951 civil rights poem "Harlem," which begins, "What happens to a dream deferred?" UPDATE: 7 28 p.m. ― The original post on the State Department's ShareAmerica site was removed later on Monday.
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Mr. Phillips became known in particular for his coverage of the city's vaunted, vanishing institutions, as in this 1969 article about the closing of the original Lindy's delicatessen, which began: "What kind of a day is today?
Mr. Downey turned the information over to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which began what it is still calling a preliminary inquiry to determine whether any federal laws were broken and whether it has jurisdiction for a full investigation.
It was a consolidation of several women's groups in the South, which began what they described as the motherly task of remembering and commemorating the men who had fought in the Civil War.
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One show I don't think I'll be staying with is Showtime's Homeland, which began what is supposed to be its comeback year with a highly problematic two-hour premiere that included a scene in which bipolar CIA operative Carrie Mathison, dangerously freaked out (if that is the correct term) by the prospect of motherhood, momentarily attempted to drown her new baby.
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