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- RIP Pat Hingle - Broadway World
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors ...
- the descent of man - Telegraph.co.uk
Telegraph.co.ukthe descent of manTelegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 34 minutes agoOne of the great heavyweights of American literature, John Updike is as famous for his graphic approach to sex as his elegantly crafted dissections of the ...
- Painting the desert red in the Wild West (MSNBC)
Where else but in charmingly offbeat New Mexico can you find people living in "earthship" homes or a Wild West town where outlaws—and ghosts—are said to have roamed?
- 'Thames: The Biography' by Peter Ackroyd - Los Angeles Times
Now in his 60th year, Peter Ackroyd is one of those forces of literary nature that British letters regularly seems to throw up -- 14 novels, five works of nonfiction, 10 biographies (some of them very fine), two collections of poetry and two of ...
- UA to 'Stop the Hate' with election event (Arizona Daily Wildcat)
Campus groups will celebrate this year's historic election on the UA Mall Wednesday at 1 p.m. with "Stop The Hate And Celebrate: Yes We Did!" The event will bring student groups together to celebrate campus diversity along with a new president.
- A talk with Jane Kamensky and Jill Lepore - Boston Globe
Boston GlobeA talk with Jane Kamensky and Jill LeporeBoston Globe, United States - 1 hour agoTheir attention to language mirrored a renewed attention to the daily existence of their subjects' lives, and in the end, they found, the book helped ...
- Literary prizes and judgment calls - Globe and Mail
Literary prizes and judgment callsGlobe and Mail, Canada - 46 minutes agoBrandt also co-translated the first poem that appears in the book, Rilke's The Voice. That is, Brandt helped to shape the book and had a hand in the ...
- A further point of interest - Northern Echo
A further point of interestNorthern Echo, UK - 19 hours agoBut last Sunday, Radio 4’s weekly poetry programme devoted itself entirely to this same poem – about a lone traveller calling at an empty house in a forest. ...
- Real Answer: YES, Virginia, there is a Jesus Christ - East Texas Review
Real Answer: YES, Virginia, there is a Jesus ChristEast Texas Review, TX - 1 hour agoThere would be no childlike faith then, no poetry to make tolerable this brief existence. The eternal light with which childhood fills the world would be ...
- Students to Recite 'Poetry on a Box Top' at Smith - Smith College Grécourt Gate
Students to Recite 'Poetry on a Box Top' at SmithSmith College Grécourt Gate, MA - Nov 7, 2008Poetry will fill the air at Smith College between classes on Thursday, Nov. 20, as students recite verses from atop soapboxes at well-traveled locations ...
- Clip joint: the senses - Guardian Unlimited
I was once went to a screening of William Castle's 1959 chiller The Tingler , hoping to finally smash the fourth wall by braving "Percepto", the electric device the director famously installed under the audience's seats to better transmit the jolts ...
- Books: "Books from Our Pages" (The New Yorker)
NONFICTION Hallelujah Junction , by John Adams (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $26). Nothing to Be Frightened Of , by Julian Barnes (Knopf; $24.95). Everything is Cinema , by Richard Brody (Metropolitan; $40). The Bin Ladens , by Steve Coll (Penguin Press; $35). The Crowd Sounds Happy , by Nicholas Dawidoff (Pantheon; $ . . .
- Kuungana Kankouran Drum and Dance Concert coming to The Whiting - MLive.com
Courtesy photo Members of the Kuungana Drum and Dance Company will perform at The Whiting on Saturday. As a longtime member of the local music scene, percussionist Kevin Collins spends countless hours teaching his many students about African culture ...
- Sugar Loaf shoppers prefer quality, serenity - Times Herald-Record
SUGAR LOAF — Away from the madness of big-box stores, Amy Lemved happily cleans the windows of her blue-and-white candle shop. "Peter doesn't like the smell of vinegar," she says, propping open the door on this mild November day. Inside the tiny ...
- My Life In Travel: Frank Skinner, comedian - The Independent
As a child, I only remember two family holidays that were longer than day trips to Weston-super-Mare and Rhyl. Once we stopped off in the car and I saw some sand and charged straight in; it turned out to be a motorway service station with some ...
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