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  • When Robert Burns ignited Bengal - Hindustan Times (2013/06/18 03:35)
    When Robert Burns ignited BengalHindustan Times“We are interested in British poets like John Leyden and DL Richardson, as well as Indian poets like Henry Derozio and Michael Madhusudan Dutt. Although our focus is on the Anglophone material, there is also a fascinating story to ... Marvell, Milton ...
  • Poet Milton's cottage is top Bucks place to visit - Buckinghamshire Advertiser (2013/06/17 05:53)
    Poet Milton's cottage is top Bucks place to visitBuckinghamshire AdvertiserONE of the Chilterns' most famous sons is boosting tourism in Bucks once again, 329 years after his death. Celebrated poet John Milton, moved to a cottage in Chalfont St Giles in 1665 to flee the plague. His cottage has since become a museum. The ...and more »
  • Field Day 2013 Review - Impact Magazine (2013/06/17 01:03)
    Field Day 2013 ReviewImpact MagazineFay Milton's drumming is outrageously good, and Gemma Thompson's guitar work is eerier than ever. However, the one member that really stands out today is lead singer Jehnny Beth, who ... Finishing off the day in style, John Cooper Clarke excites with ...
  • Save Marcus Books, soul of San Francisco, oldest Black book store in US! - San Francisco Bay View (2013/06/15 23:26)
    Save Marcus Books, soul of San Francisco, oldest Black book store in US!San Francisco Bay ViewArchbishop King, who works with the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE) to stop foreclosures and evictions and who pastors the internationally acclaimed St. John Coltrane Church, declared: “This Afrikan-American community has been ...
  • Transactions for June 16, 2013 - Reading Eagle (2013/06/15 21:21)
    Transactions for June 16, 2013Reading EagleFleetwood Devan R. Allwein, Melissa M. Allwein and Melissa M. Corl to John A. Gavin Jr. and Jennifer M. Gavin, 244 Hickory Drive, $163,000. Greenwich Township Francis A. Csencsits and Frank .... Milton E. Shade Jr. and Mary C. Shade to Brock Cahoon and ...
  • The finest diplomat and the passionate rebel - The News International (2013/06/15 20:51)
    The finest diplomat and the passionate rebelThe News InternationalWe talked about our days in South Korea and then suddenly Brahim said, “In history there have been many diplomat-poets. These include: Thomas Wyatt and Philip Sidney in English from the sixteenth century; Paul Claudel, Saint-John Perse and Octavio Paz ...
  • U.S. border patrol: Sequestration cuts hamper agents' efforts in hottest areas - Daily Caller (2013/06/15 04:55)
    U.S. border patrol: Sequestration cuts hamper agents' efforts in hottest areasDaily CallerMcALLEN, Texas (AP) — Budget cuts have hampered the U.S. Border Patrol's work in its busiest sector on the Southwest border, agents said Friday, with the agency introducing fuel conservation measures in the Rio Grande Valley that have agents ...and more »
  • Local entertainment calendar published June 13, 2013 - The Saratogian (2013/06/15 02:19)
    Local entertainment calendar published June 13, 2013The SaratogianJohn Morse Band, June 14; Soul Provider, June 15; Wednesday Open Mic/Jam Hosted by Sly Fox and the Hustlers, 8-11 p.m. June 19; Blue Hand Luke, June 21; Sabotage, featuring Erin Powers, June 22; Wednesday Open Mic/Jam Hosted by Sly Fox and the Hustlers ...
  • Pastor Talk: Try a little tenderness - Mercury-Register (2013/06/15 00:09)
    Pastor Talk: Try a little tendernessMercury-Register"The mind is its own place and in itself can make a heaven of a hell or a hell of a heaven," wrote John Milton, a 17th century English poet. "What a man can imagine or conceive in his mind, he can accomplish. Impossibilities are possible as thinking ...
  • Queen's birthday honours list 2013: MBE - The Guardian (2013/06/14 16:15)
    Queen's birthday honours list 2013: MBEThe Guardian(Watchet, Somerset). Mrs Gillian Rosamond Balen. For services to health and to the community in West Hertfordshire. (Radlett, Hertfordshire). John Bancroft. Founder, Badgemaster. For services to business in Nottinghamshire. (Stanton-by-Dale, Derbyshire ...
  • 5 Luminato highlights you have to see - Globe and Mail (2013/06/14 14:32)
    5 Luminato highlights you have to seeGlobe and MailThe text of Handel's pastoral ode is the poetry of John Milton, fashioned by Messiah librettist Charles Jennens to be a dramatic dialogue between l'Allegro (Joyful Man) and il Penseroso (Pensive Man). The design is inspired by the evocative paintings ...Mark Morris Dance Group's L'ALLEGRO, IL PENSEROSO ED IL MODERATO ...Broadway Worldall 3 news articles »
  • OMG, Cupid – this is the golden age of the written word - The Sunday Times (2013/06/14 10:09)
    The Sunday TimesOMG, Cupid – this is the golden age of the written wordThe Sunday TimesI traced familiar terms back to their proto-Indo-European roots and had a chapter on phrases invented by John Milton. A couple ... The decay of language and the disappearance of poetry have been announced by Jeremiahs of every generation, but not now.and more »
  • Gender and class equality should go hand in hand - Eureka Street (2013/06/13 22:39)
    Gender and class equality should go hand in handEureka StreetJohn Falzon headshot Dr John Falzon is an advocate with a deep interest in philosophy, society, politics and poetry. He is the St Vincent de Paul Society National Council Chief Executive and a member of the Australian Social Inclusion Board. This week ...
  • Milford Graves at Center of Vision Festival's Opening Night - New York Times (2013/06/13 17:16)
    New York TimesMilford Graves at Center of Vision Festival's Opening NightNew York TimesThe group included the Puerto Rican bassist John Benitez and three Cuban musicians: the percussionist and singer Román Díaz, the pianist David Virelles and the alto saxophonist Roman Fíliú. They could bear ... A trio with Mr. Gayle on saxophone and Mr ...and more »
  • Former Grace Temple COGIC Pastor John Hall crosses over at 85 - Frost Illustrated (2013/06/13 12:01)
    Frost IllustratedFormer Grace Temple COGIC Pastor John Hall crosses over at 85Frost IllustratedA gifted musician, singer, songwriter and poet, Superintendent Hall played tambourine and piano, mastering not only gospel music but '40s to '50s-era jazz and ragtime. In the church arena, he was a key member of a ... After his father's transition from ...
  • The Web Saratogian.com - The Saratogian (2013/06/13 10:29)
    The Web Saratogian.comThe SaratogianJohn Morse Band, June 14; Soul Provider, June 15; Wednesday Open Mic/Jam Hosted by Sly Fox and the Hustlers, 8-11 p.m. June 19; Blue Hand Luke, June 21; Sabotage, featuring Erin Powers, June 22; Wednesday Open Mic/Jam Hosted by Sly Fox and the Hustlers ...and more »
  • Irene Maria F. Blayer, Lélia Pereira Nunes - RTP (2013/06/13 10:07)
    Irene Maria F. Blayer, Lélia Pereira NunesRTP... his formative years, Pessoa was greatly affected by the works of earlier British classical authors Edmond Spencer, Sir Philip Sidney, Sir Francis Bacon, John Milton, John Dryden and, above all, William Shakespeare, a poet young Pessoa hoped to emulate.
  • Book: As Paixões de Pessoa – By George Monteiro – Review - Portuguese American Journal (2013/06/13 05:56)
    Book: As Paixões de Pessoa – By George Monteiro – ReviewPortuguese American JournalIn prior writings, Monteiro has traced Pessoa's influence on a wide range of contemporary English language writers, including Joyce Carol Oates, Allen Ginsberg, John Wain, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and earlier twentieth century poets such as Thomas Merton ...
  • In Auden's Diary - The Awl (2013/06/13 05:37)
    The AwlIn Auden's DiaryThe AwlThe importance of music—particularly by Wagner—is addressed throughout, as are works read, most notably by Gustave Flaubert and Laura Riding. He attempts John Milton's 1642 An Apology for a Pamphlet, but fails because "The adjectives are wonderful ...
  • Roses a'bloom - Dorchester Reporter (2013/06/13 03:57)
    Roses a'bloomDorchester ReporterAidan Walsh, pastor of St. Elizabeth's Church in Milton, and our friend Ann Walsh of Milton. Hubby and I send our sympathy to the entire Walsh Family. I was also ... Last month, we were delighted to see Father Richard Putnam, a Salesian, pitch-hitting ...
  • How do you prioritize equally important goals? - Business Recorder (2013/06/12 16:29)
    How do you prioritize equally important goals?Business RecorderThe other half and equally important, if not more, is his ability to navigate through the corridors of power and work the system in Islamabad. The need for a godfather does not end with the selection mechanism. John Milton, the famous English writer ...
  • Gusto's annual Festival Guide - Buffalo News (2013/06/12 13:52)
    Gusto's annual Festival GuideBuffalo NewsNoon to 4 p.m. St. John's Episcopal Church, Main Street, Youngstown. Food, raffles and music by .... Local and visiting theater and dance companies, poets, comics and musicians. .... 5 to 9 p.m. Calvary Episcopal Church, 20 Milton St., Williamsville ...and more »
  • The Strategic Investment Conference Videos - FXstreet.com (2013/06/12 05:27)
    The Strategic Investment Conference VideosFXstreet.comInflation, Milton Friedman famously said, is “always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon.” If you want to create inflation and devalue your currency, just print more money. A second shift in the print shop is in order, and if that doesn't produce the ...and more »
  • A literary guide for beginners? Not so much - Chicago Tribune (blog) (2013/06/11 07:57)
    A literary guide for beginners? Not so muchChicago Tribune (blog)Perhaps, as Eagleton writes later of Milton's "Lycidas," "These statements are just a standard piece of hyperbole. ... He writes with some confidence that a line in the Gospel of John "rivals the first line of Genesis for rhetorical splendour ...
  • Did the welfare bill really get out of control under Labour? - Left Foot Forward (2013/06/11 04:50)
    Did the welfare bill really get out of control under Labour?Left Foot ForwardMargaret Thatcher (first term, 1979-83) and John Major (1990-97) increased social security expenditure more rapidly than any other prime ministers in history. By now there should be a key theme emerging – expenditure as a percentage of GDP increases ...and more »
  • Falling for Lorenz Hart - Advocate.com (2013/06/11 03:17)
    Advocate.comFalling for Lorenz HartAdvocate.comF. Scott Fitzgerald called him America's poet laureate. Stephen Sondheim said he “freed American lyrics from the ... Many such trysts, according to both Marmorstein and the play, were set up by Milton “Doc” Bender, a dentist turned talent agent and a ...and more »
  • Queen's Birthday honours list 2013 - Sydney Morning Herald (2013/06/09 06:39)
    NEWS.com.auQueen's Birthday honours list 2013Sydney Morning HeraldThe Honourable Justice John Harris BYRNE RFD, Indooroopilly, Qld. For distinguished service to the judiciary and to the law, particularly in Queensland, as a leading contributor to legal education and reform, and to professional development and ...Queen's Birthday Honours ListNEWS.com.auall 7 news articles »
  • MAULDIN: I'm So Sure Japan Is Screwed That I'm Converting My Mortgage Into ... - Business Insider (2013/06/09 06:31)
    Business InsiderMAULDIN: I'm So Sure Japan Is Screwed That I'm Converting My Mortgage Into ...Business InsiderInflation, Milton Friedman famously said, is “always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon.” If you want to create inflation and devalue your currency, just print more money. A second shift in the print shop is in order, and if that doesn't produce the ...and more »
  • Money: The Unauthorised Biography by Felix Martin – review - The Guardian (2013/06/09 05:38)
    The GuardianMoney: The Unauthorised Biography by Felix Martin – reviewThe GuardianAfter Furness's travelogue was published in 1910, a copy found its way to John Maynard Keynes – and the man who was to become the century's most influential economist proclaimed that modern experts had much to learn from the Pacific islanders ...and more »
  • Benjamin Britten's work celebrated at special concert - Kent News (2013/06/07 23:08)
    Kent NewsBenjamin Britten's work celebrated at special concertKent NewsMany famous poets and writers text is contained within the piece including words by John Milton, John Ruskin, Emily Bronte and William Blake. Lark Ascending was sketched by Vaughan Williams whilst watching troop ships cross the English Channel at the ...and more »
  • In the Halls of American Power - Wall Street Journal (2013/06/07 12:33)
    Wall Street JournalIn the Halls of American PowerWall Street JournalWhen Secretary of State John Milton Hay died on July 1, 1905, at his summer home in New Hampshire, the nation mourned. Urbane and ... The last full biography of Hay was Tyler Dennett's "John Hay: From Poetry to Politics" 80 years ago. John Taliaferro ...
  • China inside out - Milton Ulladulla Times (2013/06/07 10:33)
    China inside outMilton Ulladulla TimesWe met poets, writers, artists, historians who, like Maya, refused to let the system eviscerate the individual. Maya was brilliant, compulsive and difficult to manage. She should have been a star, illuminating the Chinese subaltern in her own language ...and more »
  • Learn basic bicycle mechanics - Carver Reporter (2013/06/07 06:56)
    Learn basic bicycle mechanicsCarver ReporterNorwell VNA and Hospice serves over 20 communities from Milton to Kingston with a full range of home care and hospice services. Business Network International. The Old Colony Chapter of Business Network International meets from 7 to ... For rehearsal ...and more »
  • Grant Hart of Hüsker Dü to play Sandinos this Sunday night - Derry Journal (2013/06/07 02:22)
    Grant Hart of Hüsker Dü to play Sandinos this Sunday nightDerry JournalThe album is based on John Milton's Epic poem, Paradise Lost. Grant often performs with Patti Smith and has shared the stage with the likes of Charles Plymell, Philip Glass and, of course, his late chum William S. Burroughs. Tickets from Cool Discs ...and more »
  • BOOKS AND ARTS - The Tablet (subscription) (2013/06/06 08:31)
    BOOKS AND ARTSThe Tablet (subscription)The young John Milton devoured the folio, and English poets and readers have followed. John Keats' sonnet “On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again” records an activity which had been common for generations. An editor might wonder what text of ...
  • Redolés: “Si yo fuera dictador prohibiría la Televisión” - El Ciudadano (Chile) (2013/06/06 08:18)
    Redolés: “Si yo fuera dictador prohibiría la Televisión”El Ciudadano (Chile)En Londres le dije a mi tutor, Mister John Cowley, que me gustaba la sociología, pero más me gustaba la poesía. Él me dijo que quizás yo escribiría sociological poems. Y eso resultó ser profético. Años después, en un café en Peñalolén, una mujer me ...and more »
  • Hip injury forces Swans backman Mattner to hang up boots - Milton Ulladulla Times (2013/06/06 06:26)
    Hip injury forces Swans backman Mattner to hang up bootsMilton Ulladulla TimesInstead, the Swans were able to win the ball back to set up Nick Malceski's sealer. Mattner's tackle may not have been the most thrilling play of the game but for Swans coach John Longmire it was a significant moment. "The ultimate underline for his ...and more »
  • Local entertainment calendar published June 6, 2013 - Troy Record (2013/06/05 20:23)
    Local entertainment calendar published June 6, 2013Troy RecordPrimetime, Friday, June 7; Ernie Williams Tribute Show, Saturday, June 8; Wednesday Open Mic/Jam Hosted by Sly Fox & Friends, 8-11 p.m. Wednesday, June 12; John Morse Band, June 14; Soul Provider, June 15; Wednesday Open Mic/Jam Hosted by Sly Fox and ...and more »
  • Wordmanship: Pubs for readers - Marion Star (2013/06/05 17:20)
    Wordmanship: Pubs for readersMarion StarPubs named for writers: Andrew Marvell, Boswell Arms, Charles Dickens, Conan Doyle, Doctor Johnson, Edgar Wallace, George Eliot, Henry Fielding, John Clare, Jules Verne, Keats, Mark Twain, Milton's Head, Macaulay Arms, Robert Burns, Rupert Brooke ...and more »
  • This is Girl Power that you don't want to mess with - The Independent (2013/06/04 15:09)
    The IndependentThis is Girl Power that you don't want to mess withThe IndependentOnce drummer Faye Milton added her head-down precision in October 2011, Savages became a taut unit that made an immediate impact when they began gigging early the next year. With that has come ... Is it a manifesto? A poem? "I like to think of it as a ...and more »
  • Booked: Reading My Way Back to Faith - Patheos (blog) (2013/06/04 01:31)
    Booked: Reading My Way Back to FaithPatheos (blog)In classes I was studying film as literature, the New Journalists, short stories and memoirs and criticism, and for the first time in my life, poetry that wasn't a Shakespearean sonnet. It wasn't any one book ... Prior has seen the back of God in ...
  • Porters of Hellsgate's LIMOUSINE, MIDNIGHT BLUE to Play Hollywood Fringe ... - Broadway World (2013/06/03 18:31)
    Porters of Hellsgate's LIMOUSINE, MIDNIGHT BLUE to Play Hollywood Fringe ...Broadway WorldLimousine is a sequence of 36 poems of 14 lines each. It uses the famous and appalling "Zapruder Film" of JFK's death as a prism through which to view America and the world. Refracted rays touch on crime and punishment; guilt and responsibility ...and more »
  • Pain-the-common-shared-human-experience-connecting-us-to-each-other - PsychCentral.com (blog) (2013/06/03 18:16)
    PsychCentral.com (blog)Pain-the-common-shared-human-experience-connecting-us-to-each-otherPsychCentral.com (blog)“Today, John Milton is best remembered for composing Paradise Lost, a poetic retelling of the Biblical account of man's fall from perfection. (Genesis, chapter 3) It is primarily this work, first published in 1667, that earned Milton literary fame ...
  • Milton celebrates Memorial Day - Cape Gazette (2013/06/03 09:01)
    Cape GazetteMilton celebrates Memorial DayCape GazetteJohn McCrae, a Canadian doctor, whose poem, Jones said, said was always a favorite of her mother and was perfect for the occasion. The Rev. Paul Simonsen opened the ceremony with the invocation and led those in attendance in the singing of America ...
  • Fish - Live at ' The Stables ' , Milton Keynes - Mirror.co.uk (2013/06/03 08:58)
    Mirror.co.ukFish - Live at ' The Stables ' , Milton KeynesMirror.co.ukI was fortunate enough to get a ticket at a sold-out show at 'The Stables' Wavendon in Milton Keynes in May. Founded in the 1970's by Dame Clio Lane & Sir John Dankworth in their home grounds, 'The Stables' now hosts over 350 concerts & 250 educational ...
  • Grant Hart Q&A: New day rising for Hüsker Dü co-founder - MinnPost.com (2013/06/03 07:25)
    MinnPost.comGrant Hart Q&A: New day rising for Hüsker Dü co-founderMinnPost.comThe album is based on your old friend William S. Burroughs' reimagining of John Milton's poem “Paradise Lost.” Grant Hart: I decided that at this age Picasso was doing the Minotaur series; Duchamp was looking at the classics, and I had this “Paradise ...
  • Your Week in History: A major invasion and an incoherent duck - WBXH (2013/06/03 04:35)
    Your Week in History: A major invasion and an incoherent duckWBXHI'm going to get the John Wayne foolishness out of the way early because this week's article is long and the connections are tenuous at best. I feel like this whole John ... Elvis Presley and his rubber legs introduced Hound Dog on The Milton Berle ...and more »
  • Your Week in History: A major invasion and an incoherent duck - FOX19.com ... - FOX19 (2013/06/03 04:33)
    Your Week in History: A major invasion and an incoherent duck - FOX19.com ...FOX19I'm going to get the John Wayne foolishness out of the way early because this week's article is long and the connections are tenuous at best. I feel like this whole John ... Elvis Presley and his rubber legs introduced Hound Dog on The Milton Berle ...
  • Wrong turn - Milton Ulladulla Times (2013/05/31 10:43)
    Wrong turnMilton Ulladulla TimesI still struggle to organise my thoughts enough to cook a meal, though my doctor, psychologist and the good folk at St John of God have helped me get it back together. This isn't how ... Mack used to give me Christmas cards and write me little poems ...and more »
  • Lewis Lapham: Lincoln Moaned, Died as Secretary Watched - Bloomberg (2013/05/30 21:20)
    Lewis Lapham: Lincoln Moaned, Died as Secretary WatchedBloombergJohn Milton Hay went east from Warsaw, Illinois, to finish his education at Brown University in Rhode Island, where he decided to become a poet. When he went back home, a depressed Hay changed course and in May 1859 began to study law with his uncle ...and more »
  • Peak Films series shows ' The Creation ' - Stowe Today (2013/05/30 09:02)
    Peak Films series shows ' The Creation 'Stowe TodayConsidered by many to be Haydn's masterpiece, “The Creation” is an epic oratorio written between 1796 and 1798, celebrating the creation of the world as described in the Book of Genesis and in John Milton's epic poem, “Paradise Lost.” The 2012 film was ...
  • A strange story - the Irish News (2013/05/30 00:56)
    A strange storythe Irish NewsHis father Paul wrote seminal travelogue The Mosquito Coast (1981), his uncle Alexander was a novelist and poet and his cousin Justin is a Hollywood screenwriter best known for being Jennifer Aniston's fiance. Originally a television news reporter in ...
  • Entertainment listings - Vancouver Sun (2013/05/30 00:35)
    Entertainment listingsVancouver SunJune 7-8: John Beuhler . June 14-15: Sam Easton . June 21-22: Daryl Makk . 530 Columbia St., New West . 604-525-2262, lafflines.com. ""The Comedy Mix. May 30-June 1: Dana Gould . June 6-8: Sean Patton . June 13-15: Dan St. Germain . 1015 Burrard St ...and more »
  • Spenser in Life: Students and Teachers From Keats to Alpers - Town Topics (2013/05/29 05:11)
    Spenser in Life: Students and Teachers From Keats to AlpersTown TopicsIf there were a Mount Rushmore of pre-1700 English literature, Edmund Spenser would have a place up there along with Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Milton. The sculptor would be working in the dark, however, ... According to Robert Gittings's biography John ...
  • BOOK REVIEW: 'All the Great Prizes': Splendid, Comprehensive Biography of ... - HNN Huntingtonnews.net (2013/05/28 12:48)
    BOOK REVIEW: 'All the Great Prizes': Splendid, Comprehensive Biography of ...HNN Huntingtonnews.net... the Open Door with China, the creation of the Panama Canal, the establishment of America as a world leader. It's obvious that we'll never again see the like of men like John Milton Hay in office in the U.S. His poetic side wouldn't fit our drably ...
  • The Quest for God and Vegetarianism - OpEdNews (2013/05/28 11:31)
    The Quest for God and VegetarianismOpEdNewsSo, also, were Saint MartÃn de Porres, Saint Richard, Saint John de Brito, Saint Angela de Merici, Saint Francis of Paola, Saint Hilarion, Saint John Chrysostom, Saint Catherine of Siena, and Saint Francis of Assisi. ... Virgil to William Blake, Leo ...
  • Innovation: Good Reads On Courage, Diversity, Ecosystems And Principles - Forbes (2013/05/28 09:30)
    Innovation: Good Reads On Courage, Diversity, Ecosystems And PrinciplesForbesJohn Milton may be our single best example of standing by principle. Out of a wealth of great poetry and prose, Milton's “Areopagitica” stands out as one of the greatest historical examples of powerful personal conviction, and the courage to stand by ...
  • ARTERIAL AMERICA: Dispatch from Jackson - Oxford American (2013/05/27 22:10)
    ARTERIAL AMERICA: Dispatch from JacksonOxford AmericanJohn Cline is a music historian with a Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Texas. ... Little Milton, after trying twenty-eight labels post-Trumpet, found a late-career hit with his song “The Blues is Alright,” which he recorded for Malaco ...
  • The Inevitable Climate Catastrophe - Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription) (2013/05/27 21:49)
    The Inevitable Climate CatastropheChronicle of Higher Education (subscription)To the English poet John Milton, who experienced these catastrophes, it seemed like "a universe of death." So far, most attempts to predict the consequences of climate change look to the future by building on recent trends, but another methodology exists.
  • Goodes was right to act - it was more than a silly remark - Sydney Morning Herald (2013/05/27 17:25)
    Goodes was right to act - it was more than a silly remarkSydney Morning HeraldI can't believe John Raftery (Letters, May 27) honestly thinks the term ''ape'' is not a vile racist slur when directed at an indigenous person. .... To use them to justify absolute judgments on today's issues is indeed a blinkered and bigoted approach ...and more »
  • Live webchat as it happened: Sarah Churchwell on F Scott Fitzgerald and Gatsby - The Guardian (blog) (2013/05/27 04:01)
    The Guardian (blog)Live webchat as it happened: Sarah Churchwell on F Scott Fitzgerald and GatsbyThe Guardian (blog)His magnificent poetic prose, easily memorable lines, imagery that serves readers a visual spectacle and sets the imagination alight, clever use of Nick as an ambivalent narrator and heavy symbolism to expose a materialistic, self-seeking society's ...
  • To the Ghost of John Milton - Irish Independent (2013/05/26 21:24)
    To the Ghost of John MiltonIrish IndependentActually, however, he was as a poet much more subtle, various and low-key than this image would suggest. The facts of Milton's life as given here are not untrue, though the years of power and influence when he was Latin Secretary to the Cabinet have ...
  • Eureka! My quest for an authentic liberal Christianity - The Guardian (2013/05/26 03:08)
    The GuardianEureka! My quest for an authentic liberal ChristianityThe GuardianIts clearest theorist was the poet John Milton. He said that the Protestant Reformation, launched a century earlier, had now entered a new phase. God willed a new sort of state, with no official church enforcing religious unity. Instead, the state ...and more »
  • The Day The Light Brigade Charged.......And Won! - Online Gooner (2013/05/26 02:05)
    Online GoonerThe Day The Light Brigade Charged.......And Won!Online GoonerIt was at this time that Steve McMahon went around his colleagues giving it the minute signal, and John Barnes shook hands with a colleague. But we didn't see that - as with Gazza's tears in .... To go to your arch rivals for the league and have to ...
  • Strange Interlude, Paradise Lost, The Dug Out: what to see at the theatre this ... - The Guardian (2013/05/24 22:26)
    The GuardianStrange Interlude, Paradise Lost, The Dug Out: what to see at the theatre this ...The GuardianThere's a chance to see an epic poem and experience heaven and hell when the Fourth Monkey company – last in London with its award-winning production of Sarah Kane's 4.48 Psychosis – attempts to dramatise Paradise Lost. Using Milton's words almost ...
  • Classical education - North Texas e-News (2013/05/24 22:25)
    Classical educationNorth Texas e-NewsIn his pamphlet titled “Of Education,” John Milton, a 17th-century Christian poet, thinker, and statesman, wrote that “the end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining now to know God aright and out of that knowledge to ...
  • BULLETIN BOARD - May 24 - Wicked Local (2013/05/24 11:11)
    BULLETIN BOARD - May 24Wicked LocalNorwell VNA and Hospice serves over 20 communities from Milton to Kingston with a full range of home care and hospice services. Business Network International. The Old Colony Chapter of Business Network International meets from 7 to ... For rehearsal ...and more »
  • Guide book: George Fetherling looks at his past - National Post (2013/05/24 07:02)
    Guide book: George Fetherling looks at his pastNational PostUpon reaching Spadina Road. he continues south, past the grand apartment where Louise Dennys founded Knopf Canada and the lowly rooming house where poet Milton Acorn was “a star tenant.” Finally, he stops in front of 671 Spadina Ave., a ramshackle ...
  • Woolwich attack: live - Telegraph - Telegraph.co.uk (2013/05/23 09:34)
    Telegraph.co.ukWoolwich attack: live - TelegraphTelegraph.co.uk15.05 A bottle containing flammable liquid was set alight and thrown at a mosque in Milton Keynes while members were inside at evening prayers, according to police. Thames Valley Police said the bottle was ... 14.07 An anonymous poem has been left in ...and more »
  • Pursuing Freedom through Education - Continentalnews.net (2013/05/23 09:32)
    Continentalnews.netPursuing Freedom through EducationContinentalnews.netCicero, one of Rome's great thinkers and poets, deemed the liberal arts as “the academic disciplines for freedom.” Brian and Isaiah Nixon In the early Church, men such as the Apostle Paul used his liberal ... Later, Ryken quotes the great English ...
  • Local entertainment calendar published May 23, 2013 - Troy Record (2013/05/22 17:28)
    Local entertainment calendar published May 23, 2013Troy RecordSolo pianist, 7-10 p.m. Mondays; live acoustic music with Jeff Brisbin, 7-10 p.m. Tuesdays; live acoustic music with Jeff Walton, 7-10 p.m. Wednesdays; live jazz with The John Nazarenko Duo, 7-10 p.m. Thursdays; solo pianist, 7-10 p.m. Fridays; solo ...and more »
  • Friends on the path - Coast News (2013/05/22 15:04)
    Friends on the pathCoast NewsI don't recall the exact quote by writer/director John Milius from his film “Big Wednesday,” but it goes something like this: “The great rides and the big swells will fade, but we will never forget the friends we rode them with.” While not as poetic as ...
  • Dead Men Do Tell Tales - CounterPunch (2013/05/21 11:26)
    Dead Men Do Tell TalesCounterPunchDemocratic Congressman Edward Markey, candidate for the US Senate seat vacated when John Kerry became Secretary of State, joined the chorus singing to the “Patriolic” beat. Obviously mindful of potential voters, and well aware of the political climate ...and more »
  • Reviews round-up - New Statesman (2013/05/21 09:07)
    Reviews round-upNew StatesmanOnly lunatics would begrudge the blockbusting bard's determination to popularise great Italian poetry.” Janet Maslin of The New York ... have never really existed.” Hollis, he argues, is instead looking for us to “settle for little more than a slightly ...and more »
  • Sheila's Out Shopping: Smoke doesn't always mean fire - Naples Daily News (2013/05/20 03:43)
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