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- Madness abounds in The Bacchae - Houston Press
What we are writing about One of the three master playwrights of ancient Greece, Euripides was the rebel. His distinctive voice — a real hymn to humanity's faults and inner dignity — rings out with an operatic force that almost broadsides us. His ...
- The Soul in the Brain: The Cerebral Basis of Language, Art, and Belief - British Journal of Psychiatry (subscription)
The Soul in the Brain: The Cerebral Basis of Language, Art, and BeliefBritish Journal of Psychiatry (subscription), UK - 1 hour agoFrom here, one journeys through religious belief to ‘the physicality of listening to music, poetry, and religious incantation, and the shivers down the ...
- Unitarian Universalist group welcomes Rev. White - San Marcos Daily Record
The San Marcos Unitarian Universalist Fellowship has hired the Rev. Aaron White as its minister. Rev. White’s first official sermon was Sunday, Oct. 5 at UCM-Wesley. Rev. White received his undergraduate degree in religion from Austin College in ...
- Poet's rhyming riposte leaves Mrs Schofield 'gobsmacked' - Guardian Unlimited
"Today I am going to kill something," says the unnamed protagonist of Carol Ann Duffy's poem Education for Leisure. "Anything. / I have had enough of being ignored and today / I am going to play God." Duffy, one of Britain's most admired poets, might ...
- Discussing the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam - Juneau Empire (subscription)
Discussing the Rubaiyat of Omar KhayyamJuneau Empire (subscription), AK - 3 hours agoHe wrote about 5000 quatrains, a stanza or poem of four lines, embodying his philosophy of life. In Persian these were called rubaiyat. In 1859, in London, ...
- Books address racism as it affects daily lives of Indians - Billings Gazette
MISSOULA - It ain't easy being Indian. So says one of America's premier American Indian writers of contemporary Indian life. To help explain the racial complexities that permeate Sherman Alexie's work, a textbook for teachers, "Sherman Alexie in the ...
- Call Me By Your Name (RainbowNetwork.com)
I love love. Mad, inconvenient, can’t-catch-your-breath love. I believe when certain people meet there’s such a feeling they’ve always known and loved each other, the passion between them could set fire to asbestos.
- Author and Poet Pat Mora to Receive Luis Leal Literature Award - UC Santa Barbara
Author and Poet Pat Mora to Receive Luis Leal Literature AwardUC Santa Barbara, CA - 2 hours agoAmong her collections of poetry are "Agua Santa: Holy Water"; "Adobe Odes"; "Communion"; "Aunt Carmen's Book of Practical Saints"; "Borders"; and "Chants. ...
- 'The Romance of Astrea and Celadon': The Hopeful Romantic (The New York Sun)
Director Eric Rohmer, now 88 years young, has suggested that his 2007 film "The Romance of Astrea and Celadon" may be his last. If so, it's a fitting send-off. While this soaring tale of flawed eternal love is not exactly the director's most compelling work, it certainly does build to a finale in which the heroes both succeed and fail, allowing the hopeless romantic behind the camera the chance ...
- A nation of words - The National
A nation of wordsThe National, United Arab Emirates - 1 hour ago“For Arabs and especially Bedouins,†he says, “the connection with poetry is born with you when you are born. So it is only natural that even a short story ...
- Stunning Bolt doubles up on records - Guardian Unlimited
BEIJING, Aug 20 (Reuters) - Usain Bolt produced another barely believable performance of dominant sprinting to break Michael Johnson's untouchable world record on Wednesday and add 200 metres gold to the 100 he won in record time four days ago. While ...
- Hobbton teacher one of five nationwide to share stories with Holocaust ... - Sampson Independent
For Hobbton High English teacher Michael Cook, winning a chance to travel to Washington, D.C. and share stories with survivors of the Holocaust was an opportunity of a lifetime and one he won’t soon forget. Cook was one of five teachers in the ...
- Festival fuses arts, culture and sports - Epping Forest Guardian
IN the month that the Olympic baton is officially passed to London, the Shoreditch Festival fuses themes of sport and art with a party atmosphere. From August 16 to 24, residents, local artists and small businesses that make up the Shoreditch Trust ...
- Queer (Re)Readings in the French Renaissance Homosexuality, Gender ... - Fabula
FabulaQueer (Re)Readings in the French Renaissance Homosexuality, Gender ...Fabula, France - 12 hours ago... including French translations of Boccaccio's Decameron, the poetry of Ronsard, works in praise of and satirising Henri III and his mignons, ...
- Fear Stalks Muslim Apostates in the West - American Thinker
Persuading Western Muslim leaders to repudiate Shari'a-sanctioned violence against apostates can be a frustrating exercise, as Prince Charles discovered in 2004. Troubled by the treatment of Muslims who convert to Christianity in Islamic nations, the ...
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