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- Muriel Spark - guardian.co.uk
Muriel Sparkguardian.co.uk, UK - 6 hours ago... Foreign Office intelligence during the second world war, and brought new life to the Poetry Review in a stormy two-year editorship from 1947 to 1949. ...
- I'll Take the Manhattan (Las Cruces Sun-News)
H.L. Mencken famously called the martini "the only American invention as perfect as the sonnet." The sonnet, as anyone who took freshman English may remember, is a poem with a specific meter, a structure of exactly 14 lines and a strict rhyme scheme.
- Online Jihadists: Give Us Lightning Guns! - Wired News
Online Jihadists: Give Us Lightning Guns!Wired News - 5 hours agoOther recent tidbits include a mortar-making manual, militants' new web video push, and the poetry of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi (“If it wasn’t for defending the ...
- Toward Helhaven - Inside Higher Ed
Toward HelhavenInside Higher Ed, DC - 1 hour agoBurke’s fiction and poetry tend to be overlooked by chroniclers of American literary history. But his experimental novel Towards a Better Life has exercised ...
- Joyce Carol Oates enters 'tabloid hell' - Arlington Heights Daily Herald
Some of Oates' books feel as if she wrote them as dares to herself. This novel, her 37th, is one of the wildest. Oates sets out to solve a fictionalized version of the JonBenet Ramsey murder, with skating prodigy "Bliss" Rampike replacing the real ...
- Romeo and Juliet, Open Air Theatre Regent's Park, London (Independent)
The night before the premiere of Timothy Sheader's Romeo and Juliet, I was watching I Vitelloni, the Fifties movie about spoilt, feckless young men in a grim northern Italian town. The next night, I thought I still was. Here again were the eager girls in circle skirts, the sulky boys combing their DAs, the carnival masqueraders doing the mambo. Here, too, was lots of background music – though ...
- Emerging writer's festival is all about the words - Age
Being a writer can be lonely, but this weekend hundreds of them will get together. One local success story says he can’t wait. Annie Lawson reports. STROLLING along a Torquay beach with a friend five years ago, Andrew Hutchinson watched as a man in ...
- What's Happening - Patriot Ledger
ART ON THE AVENUE – Gallery & Open Studio, 1037 Nantasket Ave., Hull. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sat. Sun. Paintings, photos, books, drawings, furniture, jewelry by Lenore Schneider, Brooks Kelly, Theo Page, Ellie Hayes, Julie Schmitt Sullivan, Bill ...
- School councils host development event - Bowling Green Daily News
The Kentucky Association of School Councils will host a regional professional development academy in Bowling Green on Tuesday at Bowling Green High School. The six-hour session, Continuous Assessment to Change Instruction, will explore a wide array ...
- The lure of the lighthouse - Scotsman
The lure of the lighthouseScotsman, United Kingdom - 1 hour agoThis piece was dinned into us at school, instilling not necessarily an appreciation of poetry, but a whole gallimaufry of conspiracy theories – the accepted ...
- The wackiest festivals in America (MSNBC)
A month-by-month guide to the contests and parades that bring out America's best and quirkiest. Some people will dream up any excuse for a party!
- Like Yorkshire's greatest cricketers, JM Kilburn was not known for ... - CricInfo.com
CricInfo.comLike Yorkshire's greatest cricketers, JM Kilburn was not known for ...CricInfo.com, UK - 1 hour agoThe prose is spare, the details are visual, and the player is placed in his context with minimum fuss. Kilburn was 25 then, and had already found his voice; ...
- Maoist China foreign policy: 1970s and 1980s - Boston IMC
(a) SOUTHEAST ASIA. Only in China’s traditional “sphere of influence” has the People’s Republic given consistent material support to powers abroad – to North Korea and North Vietnam – and verbal support to movements against governments ...
- People in the news (The Standard-Times)
McCartney appeals for peace over concert
- A spark from heaven - Jerusalem Post
A spark from heavenJerusalem Post, Israel - 2 hours agoIt's such beautiful poetry," he said. "I sat down at the piano, closed my eyes, and a melody came for this ancient prayer in full form from beginning to end ...
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