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- A Sea of Tranquillity? - bbc
President Sarkozy has greeted the 43 world leaders for a summit that at least looks more successful than many of us expected. He welcomed Mrs Merkel with a hug, Gordon Brown with what could have been a joke and the Turkish leader very quickly ...
- Glenn Perry - Australian Stage Online
Glenn PerryAustralian Stage Online, Australia - 56 minutes agoWith libretti you're not necessarily dealing with long sentences - its more like the phrasing of poetry. Also, in the libretto you are structuring scenes ...
- Twist in the Gut - Seattle Weekly
Twist in the GutSeattle Weekly, WA - 3 hours agoSome consider Blanche one of the most challenging roles in the American canon, and they are right. But because Williams invests his own love of poetry in ...
- A UN of sound from Boston Musica Viva - Boston Globe
"Hands Across the Seas," the title of Boston Musica Viva's season finale on Friday, referred to the varied cultural ancestries of the four programmed composers; music director Richard Pittman mused that their only shared trait was that "they're very ...
- Simic stepping aside as U.S. poet laureate (Moldova.org)
A lecture on poetry translation will be the final time Charles Simic speaks as U.S. poet laureate, the Library of Congress said.I've thoroughly enjoyed this past year, Simic said in a news release. The best part of being poet laureate of the United States is working with the fine, dedicated and learned people at the Library (of Congress).Simic, poet laureate since August 2007, will give a ...
- What the public wants - Haaretz.com
The disengagement from Gush Katif is seared into the evacuated settlers' collective memory as a deportation, and as such - as blatantly immoral. Many of the evacuees still feel they had been attacked, like the Altalena's passengers. That their ...
- Thank you: Letter from Queen's Lady-in-Waiting at Buckingham ... - Royal Gazette
Royal GazetteThank you: Letter from Queen's Lady-in-Waiting at Buckingham ...Royal Gazette, Bermuda - 2 hours agoA former Bermudian resident has been recognised by the Queen after he sent her a copy of his Bermuda-inspired book of poetry and songs with the traditional ...
- Beyond Formalism: Adam Kirsch's "Invasions" (The New York Sun)
Art and criticism make rather strange bedfellows. A book-critic friend of mine recently noticed that he and his artist wife, both enthusiastic gardeners, played entirely different roles in the vegetable garden behind their house: Her job was to nurture the plants, his to whack anything that ventured a tendril outside its appointed row. With a version of that couple brawling in his psyche, you ...
- Wednesday's Agenda, July 23 - Miami Herald
Items contributed must be received at least two days in advance at Calendar Desk, The Miami Herald, 1 Herald Plaza, Fifth Floor Newsroom, Miami, FL 33132-1693. Or e-mail your items to newscalendar@MiamiHerald.com . No faxes, please. For a complete ...
- Capturing Memories Exhibit winners are noted for Moorhead Cultural ... - Missouri Valley Times News
Capturing Memories Exhibit winners are noted for Moorhead Cultural ...Missouri Valley Times News, IA - 2 hours agoÊ In the fourteenth year of this annual event the photographers & the authors have captured in their original photographs, snapshots, prose, & poetry the ...
- Midwest City teen died saving friend's life - Tulsa World
Midwest City teen died saving friend's lifeTulsa World, OK - 18 minutes agoGerald Lee said his sister wrote poetry and music and was an aspiring rapper and radio broadcaster. Her stage name was Proverb, he said. ...
- 'Summer Hats' are a hit in New Harmony - Evansville Courier-Press
A cacophony of color, a flurry of flowers and hats of many hues adorned the heads of nearly 250 guests at the recent sixth annual Summer Hat Luncheon. Chatting in the lobby after the Public Education Foundation/Evansville Vanderburgh School Corp ...
- Who's Townshend slams iTunes as 'heartless' (Macworld UK)
The Who guitarist Pete Townshend has blasted Apple's iTunes Store as "brilliant, but heartless". "Artists can no longer sell the products of their genius because the internet supplies it virtually for free. What can be sold is that genius in the flesh," Jenkins thrills.
- Eighth-graders create Holocaust museum (The Champaign News-Gazette)
CHAMPAIGN – The hallway and classrooms at Franklin Middle School were draped with black paper chains and lined with displays. The students standing in front of them rattled off the facts to visitors – 83,000 Jews dead from starvation or disease in the Warsaw Ghetto. Families sending children into hiding. People waiting for days at a switching yard, without food or water, to board a train to a ...
- Happy Birthday, Archibald MacLeish! - Arizona Daily Star
Arizona Daily StarHappy Birthday, Archibald MacLeish!Arizona Daily Star, AZ - 1 hour agoHe was a guest of the Ruth Stephan Poetry Center. When MacLeish was in Tucson his schedule included a meeting with reporters, attendance at a formal recital ...
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