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- Newspaper editorials from around the nation and world (The Santa Rosa Press Democrat)
The following are excerpts from recent newspaper editorials in the United States and abroad:On China and OlympicsFrom the Jacksonville (Ill.) Journal-Courier:Many people hoped that holding this year's Olympic Games in Beijing would serve as a lever to induce China to act more as a mature member of the international community.
- Beware The P-Words - Vitalfootball
Beware The P-WordsVitalfootball, UK - 9 hours agoBe advised that it was not poetry in motion. Especially when the reply is in slow motion. Around now, this column would normally pick a preferred Colchester ...
- Young Western Saharan refugees build for the future in Cuba (AlertNet)
Source: UNHCR Cuba has provided an education for thousands of Sahrawi refugees over the past quarter century and prepared them for a better future.
- Uncloaked Potter Blinds Horses in `Equus' Revival: John Simon (Bloomberg)
Sept. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Some plays read well but play poorly; ``Equus,'' specious as literature, is nevertheless dazzling theater. Now Peter Shaffer 's 1973 drama rides again on Broadway, in a production starring Daniel Radcliffe , filmdom's Harry Potter, and Richard Griffiths , aka Uncle Vernon and star of ``The History Boys.'' It is a gripping spectacle but not a substantial one.
- Stage whispers - Coventry Telegraph
Stage whispersCoventry Telegraph, UK - 1 hour agoFOUR drama school graduates have been learning all about performing poetry with experts from the Royal Shakespeare Company as part of a Poetry Intensive ...
- 'Zombie Blondes,' 'Ghostgirl,' 'Dead Connection' - San Francisco Chronicle
'Zombie Blondes,' 'Ghostgirl,' 'Dead Connection'San Francisco Chronicle, USA - 26 minutes agoEvery chapter opens with a quote from either poetry (such as that of Edgar Allan Poe) or song lyrics (Johnny Rotten never imagined his words would end up in ...
- The Week In Books: A feast of rich and dark materials - The Independent
Monoculture threatens literature just as much as landscape. If featureless plains of soya beans or oilseed rape can ruin not just the charm but the resilience of an eco-system, then a reading culture built around a narrow band of middle-of-the-road ...
- Monday Medley - Pueblo Chieftain
Long before shoppers explored the cyber wonder-worlds of amazon.com and eBay, there was an alternative to shopping in person: catalogs. This is noteworthy because today marks the 136th anniversary of the first mail-order catalog, published by ...
- Vandals shatter Chagall window at French cathedral - Boston Herald
Vandals shatter Chagall window at French cathedralBoston Herald, United States - 17 hours agoAfter a visit to Israel, the Russian-born French artist described the Bible as “the greatest source of poetry of all time.”
- The Meaning of Karadzic - Huffingtonpost.com
With a dark character. Such poetry failed to win renown for the ambitious Karadzic. Psychiatry, too, disappointed. He turned to wild financial schemes; in the 1980s, he was convicted of embezzlement and fraud. Then politics and plotting, leading to ...
- Channel some Jimi Hendrix - St. Petersburg Times
Story Tools Let's be clear: the Contemporary Art Museum does NOT condone violence. So why the smash-up at their mash-up tonight? For art, of course. The University of South Florida museum, located on its Tampa campus, has always been a bastion of ...
- Alina Simone Pays Tribute to Russian Rocker - Spinner
Alina Simone Pays Tribute to Russian RockerSpinner, NY - 1 hour ago"This is really poetry," she says, "and so when you translate it into English it sounds like word salad. It just doesn't have the same feeling [and] doesn't ...
- SPECIAL EVENT : Events to honor Black Boy author Richard Wright - Arkansas Democrat Gazette
SPECIAL EVENT : Events to honor Black Boy author Richard WrightArkansas Democrat Gazette, AR - 22 minutes ago“The Poetry in Black Boy,” presented by Central High English teacher Stacy McAdoo; excerpt reading to follow. “Richard Wright and the Harlem Renaissance,” ...
- Sunday sermon - Emporia gazette.com
The Old Testament is a wonderful collection of 39 books and is extremely important to a Christian’s understanding of God’s eternal purpose to save man from sin. The New Testament quotes many Old Testament scriptures and makes many references to ...
- Krapp at 50 - Trinity News
Krapp at 50Trinity News, Ireland - 1 hour agoSubsequently, he would withdraw further from convention, sacrificing the relative coherency of excremental daubs and phlegmy prose effusions for a more ...
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