
Mark Van Doren
American poet and writerWikipedia
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Search complete. 3 mentions across 3 episodes found for "Mark Van Doren".
Nov 2, 2026
Quiz Show (1994) [Jeff Pic]
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56:09Brad GilmoreHOST
Because really, he's already taken the biggest hit, which is having to confess to your dad.
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56:17Jeff SmithHOST
So I see the whole quote here, and it's Mark Van Doren's the dad.
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56:21Jeff SmithHOST
He says, I'm sorry, Charlie.
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56:22Jeff SmithHOST
I'm an old man.
He Knew Too Much: The Mysterious Death of James Forrestal
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49:59Peter RobbinsGUEST
The secretary's regular attendant has not shown up that night for his shift, a first, and hospital apprentice R.W. Harrison has been assigned to look in on the VIP patient on the sixteenth floor.
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50:11Peter RobbinsGUEST
Forrestal appears to be sleeping at one thirty AM, but is awake at one forty-five when the apprentice attendant finds him copying a Sophocles poem out of an anthology of poetry by, uh, edited by, uh, I think at the time, America's Poet Laureate Mark Van Doren.
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50:29Peter RobbinsGUEST
If not, he was after that.
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50:31Peter RobbinsGUEST
Uh, when the apprentice attendant finds him copying out the Sophocles poem.
A Journey Through Family, Race & Ancestry | The Unrooted Bloom Filmmakers LIVE
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49:26Amber Allen-PeirsonGUEST
... anything else would be on my part manipulation.
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49:30Amber Allen-PeirsonGUEST
You know, one of my favorite quotes is by Mark Van Doren.
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49:34Amber Allen-PeirsonGUEST
I don't even know who he is, but I just like the quote.
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49:37Amber Allen-PeirsonGUEST
And it says, like, "A good teacher tells the student where to look, but not what to see." And-