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Such fraternization between poets and scientists wasn't uncommon. Poetry and science weren't wholly separate yet: they were seen as complementary ways of piercing the veil of everyday phenomena. William Wordsworth, Lord Byron and the Shelleys (Percy Bysshe and Mary) followed scientific breakthroughs like sports scores. Holmes traces echoes of the astronomical work of William Herschel, who discovered Uranus, through Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner ("the stars that still sojourn, yet still move onward") and into Keats' "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer": "Then I felt like some watcher of the skies/When a new planet swims...
...major opponent of the University’s land buying plans and supported Long’s effort to acquire the MTA land.“Big Al Velluci: he enjoyed pulling Harvard’s nose, and he was great at it,” said Frederick W. Byron ’59, who also reported on the Bennett Street Yard acquisition controversy for The Crimson.Vellucci went on to serve three terms as mayor of Cambridge in the 1970s and 1980s. He made a name for himself by demanding that Harvard make a “payment in lieu...
Sexy, But Which Sex? An inspiration and patroness to adventurous young directors, especially women, Swinton made her American-film debut as a pan-sexually voracious attorney in Susan Streitfeld's Female Perversions. Lynn Hershman-Leeson cast her as Lord Byron's daughter Ada King, who devised an early computer, in Conceiving Ada, and, in Teknolust, as a geneticist who makes three copies of herself (you must see the trio dance together in kimonos). But it was Sally Potter's Orlando, which Swinton helped raise the money for, that won the actress her sturdiest pre-Hollywood acclaim...
...York, Byron •Obama's high approval ratings are dismissed by as merely the result of lots of blacks liking him, making his positions seem "more popular overall than they actually are" - that is, more popular among all people than they actually are among the only people who really count, white ones
...Punishing the American people in our effort to somehow deal a blow to the Castro government has not made any sense at all.' BYRON L. DORGAN, U.S. Senator, on a bill that would lift the 50-year-old travel ban to Cuba...