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- Letters: Oxbridge admissions (Independent)
David Blunkett, discussing Oxbridge admissions (report, 21 July) falls into the same trap as most commentators in assuming that the problem of a high proportion of independent-school admissions to Oxbridge lies with the universities themselves.
- Music in the Park to start (The Belleville View)
If its summer, it's time to get ready for those lazy, hazy, crazy Sundays of Music in the Park, a free event every at 3 p.m. at the gazebo in Victory Park.
- William Stafford's Poetry of False Witness (The New York Sun)
When William Stafford (1914-93) was given the National Book Award for poetry, for his 1962 collection "Traveling Through the Dark," the judges said of his poems that "their music knows the value of silence." This seems a dubious tribute. Would a composer be acclaimed for his mastery of rests? In fact, though Stafford often wrote about silence — and made grand claims for it — he was an unusually ...
- See and buy at the 3 Rivers Arts Festival - Beaver County Times
PITTSBURGH — Rain or shine, visitors will spend an estimated $2.4 million on art objects at this year’s Three Rivers Arts Festival. That’s a lot of impulse buying. “We’ve all got a little spending income, right?” said the festival’s ...
- United we sang... - Deccan Herald
Deccan HeraldUnited we sang...Deccan Herald, India - 3 hours agoShe also loves to read poetry apart from listening to all kinds of songs in various languages. Bhupinder, incidentally, does not listen to other ghazal ...
- Great River Shakespeare Festival announces sonnet winners (Winona Post)
When Winona’s Poet Laureate James Armstrong proposed a citywide sonnet contest, he wasn’t sure he’d have enough entries to give away prizes. After all, it is a 400-year-old poetry form that may not be as familiar to the community as he’d like fit to be.
- Writer offered a young Obama life advice (USA Today)
At key moments in his adolescence, Barack Obama could not turn to a father he hardly knew. Instead, he looked to a left-leaning black journalist and poet for advice on living in a world of black and white.
- Cultural Hot Spots (The Gleaner)
Cultural Hot Spots
- Billy Joel diehard becomes his hero on stage - Scranton Times-Tribune
Billy Joel diehard becomes his hero on stageScranton Times-Tribune, USA - 3 hours ago“On the second level, his poetry and storytelling are amazing,” he continued. “You know the people he’s writing about.” For how serious he was about music, ...
- 'Jewish Exponent' Wins 13 City, State Journalism Awards - Jewish Exponent
The staff of the Jewish Exponent earned 13 honors as the state and city press associations handed out awards for the best journalism published in 2007. The Exponent won first place for general news coverage for its May 10 feature "They've Seen the ...
- Standing Witness: Horacio Moya's 'Senselessness' - New York Sun
Standing Witness: Horacio Moya's 'Senselessness'New York Sun, United States - 2 hours agoIn many ways a black comedy, "Senselessness" is still a political book. Its angry confessional could be the work of an American writer in the vein of Philip ...
- Arts community feels snub as council picks Gloucester's new poet ... - Boston Globe
"The noise of debate makes music," Gloucester poet John Ronan once wrote in a tribute to his flinty hometown. But the noise of late has hardly been music to his ears. Ronan's recent appointment as Gloucester's second poet laureate, following the ...
- Spreading Scarlett Fever - New York Sun
Spreading Scarlett FeverNew York Sun, United States - 4 hours agoIt is unknown if Mr. Shatner intended for his 1968 recording of poetry and pop covers, "The Transformed Man," to be the galaxy's funniest album, ...
- Showdown in Gotham town - International Herald Tribune
Dark as night and nearly as long, Christopher Nolan's new Batman movie feels like a beginning and something of an end. Pitched at the divide between art and industry, poetry and entertainment, it goes darker and deeper than any Hollywood movie of its ...
- Disney Designer Harriet Burns Died at 79 - ARTINFO
ARTINFODisney Designer Harriet Burns Died at 79ARTINFO, NY - 13 hours agoHis art incorporates visual imagery from folklore, myths, and poetry, done in a childlike style with bright, vivid colors. He was a member of the Welsh ...
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