Richard Cizik
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
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- Aug 17, 2026
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- Jul 8, 2026
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The gospel of the pinball wizard (opens the original)
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When The Who’s Tommy catapulted onto the music scene in 1969, Americans were enraptured by the haunting music and story of a fictionalized young boy, Tommy Walker, who witnessed his father kill his mother’s lover, was sworn to secrecy by his parents, and retreated into an uncommunicative catatonic state. Eventually, the adolescent Tommy became “the deaf, dumb and blind kid” using the vibrations of the pinball machine to master the game and become an international pinball wizard. Almost 60 years
We are a nation of immigrants (opens the original)
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God bless America, land that I love. Stand beside her, and guide her, through the night with a light from above. From the mountains, to the prairies, to the oceans white with foam, God bless America. My home sweet home. This one-verse song was written by Irving Berlin, an immigrant and a Jew who fled a mob in Siberia and migrated with his family to New York City when he was 5 years old. In so many ways, his is the story of America — people from around the world coming to this country, sometimes
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