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- How to read Cicero's gobbets - Times Online
A century or so ago, the English word “gobbet” was given a new lease of life. This obscure term for a small lump of something unsavoury (mud, raw meat, snot) was reborn. It now referred to a short extract of text, one that was often set as an ...
- Why William Shatner Can Save Gaelic - Cape Breton
Although I have a Scottish name, I do not claim to have any of the Gaelic in me. If I also profess no desire to learn Gaelic, it is not because it is not a poetically expressive tongue with a rich, long history (which it is), it's only because I ...
- MHS Forensics Team again wins District - Mexia Daily News
MHS Forensics Team again wins DistrictMexia Daily News, TX - 8 hours agoJunior Kelsey Craig took home the gold in Prose Interpretation for the 3rd consecutive year with freshman Michael Savage placing 3rd. ...
- My language, my birthright (Daily Dispatch)
“MY RHYMES are so fat like Proverb’s tummy. Don’t laugh dude coz your sister is so pretentious like a reptile,” raps Motla. “Ndize kule rap andina ntanga? Intle kune cherrie yalomtshana (Can I rap for you because I’m the best? Rap is beautiful, more than my friend’s girlfriend).”
- Amy Winehouse lyrics are academic - Daily Telegraph
So English literature students at Cambridge have been asked to criticise Amy Winehouse lyrics in a final year examination. Are the lofty spires of academic excellence crumbling into a morass of pop culture? Is this the apotheosis of dumbing down ...
- Cambridge students asked to compare Raleigh and Shakespeare with ... - This is London
Cambridge students asked to compare Raleigh and Shakespeare with ...This is London, UK - 24 minutes agoIt also quotes Ruskin's maxim: 'Lyric poetry is the expression by the poet of his own feelings.' Students were then asked to compare-the Raleigh poem with ...
- Western auction items needed for SV FFA Sagebrush Serenade - Reno Gazette Journal
Western auction items needed for SV FFA Sagebrush SerenadeReno Gazette Journal, NV - 7 hours agoAt 5:00 pm, celebrity host John Tyson of KOLO-TV will kick off the evening's entertainment, beginning with a line-up of local cowboy poets and musicians: ...
- Forgotten photos capture idyllic past - DesMoinesRegister.com
Forgotten photos capture idyllic pastDesMoinesRegister.com, IA - 13 minutes agoThey are poetry of a bygone era. "Maybe it's our gnawing discomfort, the unease the country is feeling right now, that make these photos resonate," said ...
- Poetry Notebook 7-13-08 - indy.com
Poetry Notebook 7-13-08indy.com, IN - 13 hours agoby JL Kato CLUB DISBANDS: Moods in Rhythm Poetry Club, a Greenfield affiliate of Indiana State Federation of Poetry Clubs, has chosen to disband. ...
- Wagon ride takes travelers to dinner in a tipi - Montana Standard
For the past five summers, Bruce Anfinson and his family have hosted dinners at Moose Meadow Tipi on the ranch, located south of Helena. People access the tipi via horse-drawn wagons. The historic past is brought to life as horses’ hooves clop ...
- The Soviet Patient: “My Heart is Black without a Grease-Paint” - ArmeniaNow.com
ArmeniaNow.comThe Soviet Patient: “My Heart is Black without a Grease-Paint”ArmeniaNow.com, Armenia - 17 hours agoMaybe fate had prepared a destiny of a poet for him, but poetry became the shadow that just accompanied him, during the days tasting of medicines, ...
- Cleveland Orchestra welcomes top-notch guests - The Plain Dealer - cleveland.com
Cleveland Orchestra welcomes top-notch guestsThe Plain Dealer - cleveland.com, OH - 10 hours agoEvery phrase was filled with poetry or verve, as the music demanded. Fischer traveled seamlessly from intimacy to blazing fire, molding Tchaikovsky's ...
- Pride Month - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
This Tony Award winning play is the story Darren Lemming, the star center fielder of the world champion New York Empires baseball team, who is young, rich, famous, talented, handsome and so convinced of his popularity that when he casually announces ...
- Wali Haider Zakir: employing both words and paint - The News - International
Wali Haider Zakir: employing both words and paintThe News - International, Pakistan - 3 hours ago... get the Urdu readers educated about the art, artists and their role and the relation of art with the literature. One of the books discusses the poetry ...
- Fourth of July Patriotism - Brighton Standard-Blade
Fourth of July PatriotismBrighton Standard-Blade, United States - 1 hour agoIn the letters, she revealed that she was also a writer of poetry. Yes, she was a patriot, and a critic driven by her patriotism to work for change and we ...
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