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- Dr. Johnson, Reconsidered - Wall Street Journal
Samuel Johnson's monumental body of work is easy to admire from 200 years away, but slightly more difficult to read. none To get an idea of what the writer and lexicographer represented to 18th-century Britain, you have to start with his early years ...
- A Publishing Primer - Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription)
A Publishing PrimerChronicle of Higher Education (subscription) - 2 hours agoAny piece of proprietary work (song lines, poetry, artwork, chunks of other people's intellectual property) must have permission cleared by whoever wants to ...
- Palin's pompom prose - St. Petersburg Times
WASHINGTON — I had hoped I was finally done with acting as an interpreter for politicians whose relationship with the English language was tumultuous. There's W.'s gummy grammar, of course, like the classic, "Is our children learning?" And covering ...
- Paintings by Renaissance master Titian and Italian contemporaries on ... - MetroMix
ATHENS, Greece (AP) _ More than 20 paintings by Renaissance master Titian and his contemporaries go on display in Athens this week on the occasion of an official visit to Greece by Italy's president. The three-month exhibition at the Museum of ...
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn made history by writing it - The Associated Press
The Associated PressAlexander Solzhenitsyn made history by writing itThe Associated Press - 10 hours ago"There was a moment when the public opinion of the greatest empire in the world, involved in the largest war in their history, was changed by a few poets," ...
- More Than Cartoons in 'The Animation Show 4' - New York Sun
More Than Cartoons in 'The Animation Show 4'New York Sun, United States - 1 hour agoBy S. JAMES SNYDER | July 25, 2008 Given the rather profound poetry of a film such as "WALL-E" and the scathing satire of a television series such as "South ...
- Knight Rider: KITT's Cylon Laser Saves The Day - io9
Knight Rider: KITT's Cylon Laser Saves The Dayio9, CA - 1 hour agoOh, and the ability to help you pick up the hottest girl in any bar by feeding you exactly the right poetry. Click through for insanely bizarre details from ...
- Review interview: Richard Dawkins - Times Online
Times OnlineReview interview: Richard DawkinsTimes Online, UK - 6 hours ago“Well, we devote our lives to writing books, composing music, creating poetry – all higher functions of the brain. If we were following Darwinian dictates, ...
- Do It | Mos Def (Brick)
Many rappers double as screen actors these days, but few are as talented and prolific in both arenas as Mos Def. Unlike other rapper-actors, the Brooklyn, New York emcee and Emmy®, Grammy® and Golden Globe® award nominee has managed to stay relevant in the hip-hop world by refusing to provide fans of his music with pap.
- Nature poet wins inaugural gong for religious verse - The Australian
Nature poet wins inaugural gong for religious verseThe Australian, Australia - 4 hours agoMark Tredinnick has won the inaugural Blake Poetry Prize with a seven-stanza work called Have you seen. Tredinnick, a former lawyer and book publisher, ...
- China says tainted milk scandal spreading - Hartford Courant
Tainted milk formula in China has killed three babies in a spreading scandal that has revealed that one-fifth of dairy companies tested nationwide have sold products tainted with a chemical that has sickened more than 6,200 children. Li Changjiang ...
- Gettysburg high school publication honored - The Evening Sun
Gettysburg high school publication honoredThe Evening Sun, PA - 9 hours agoThe publication contains student poetry and artwork, and, according to Interrobang staff members, it serves as an outlet for creativity and self-expression. ...
- There's nothing to stop Brits moving abroad - so why not? - guardian.co.uk
There's nothing to stop Brits moving abroad - so why not?guardian.co.uk, UK - 6 minutes agoYou'd get tax breaks for having kids, free childcare from the age of three months and a first lady who writes her own three-chord pop songs. ...
- College mourns death of Prof. William Murphy - Unionews
College mourns death of Prof. William MurphyUnionews, NY - 3 hours ago“He could recite poetry by the yard,” retired Union literature professor Alan Nelson said. Murphy was well-regarded internationally among Yeats scholars and ...
- Manly exorcise their grand final demons - Gold Coast News
Manly exorcise their grand final demonsGold Coast News, Australia - 2 hours agoWolfman winger David Williams stepped up first with a four-pointer in the corner, then Steve Menzies' try was, to put it quite simply, poetry in motion. ...
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