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...also a writer who saw his play, The Fetal Pig, a comedy about a mid-life crisis, staged in Philadelphia in 1987. ''I like to put on football games and write,'' says Smith, who holds an M.B.A. from the University of Pittsburgh and is fond of quoting Chaucer in Middle English. ''I find it a good release.'' Malone, on the other hand, is painfully shy and often appears uncomfortable in public. Although he lives in the Denver area, he is little known there outside business circles, and he forbids interviewers to ask about his wife Leslie or their two children...
...Day” presentation yesterday evening in Winthrop House. Surprisingly, neither of the two St. Valentines had any connection to romance, according to Keliher. Valentine’s Day became associated with love some eleven centuries after the saint had died in a poem by Geoffrey Chaucer. “Chaucer wrote the first poem in English celebrating Valentine’s Day and is the earliest writer we know of to associate the day with love and romance,” said English professor Nicholas J. Watson, who teaches a freshman seminar on the poet. Chaucer?...
While three Harvard students won Rhodes Scholarships this year, Lowell House resident Megan E. Galbreth ’08 is the only Harvard undergraduate to have bagged the prestigious Marshall Scholarship. Galbreth, who is interested in the poet Geoffrey Chaucer and will use the funds to study medieval literature at Oxford, said in an interview that she was “overjoyed” when she heard the news on Monday. “I am so excited to live in England—to experience a new culture and a different atmosphere,” she said. Galbreth...
...current craze around consumer-generated media didn't start with Youtube, MySpace or even with blogging. Go back almost 600 years. In 1421, for example, John Lydgate, perhaps longing for just one more tale, wrote an obscure piece entitled The Siege of Thebes, a continuation of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. The 1970s saw the dawn of fanzines, a pre-Internet form of user participation albeit distributed on mimeograph paper...
...playing shows.” This weekend, Bishop Allen returns to their old Cambridge stomping grounds for a show at the Middle East. They now pop where they used to punk, but lest listeners think that their evolution has only been a musical one, they note that beyond Chaucer as well as “Charm School.” “When I was in college, I used to read a book and write a paper about it,” notes Rice. “Now, I read a book and write a song...