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...adopted a tiny six-pointed white star, also symbolic of the snow-covered peak, as its trademark. Since its launch, the Montblanc pen has revolutionized the industry, elevating beautifully crafted writing instruments to designer status in the ever growing luxury stratosphere. The most expensive model, the limited-edition Meisterstck Solitaire Royal, is decorated with 4,810 pav diamonds (the metric height of Mont Blanc). A version of that pen entered the 1994 Guinness Book of Records as the most expensive fountain pen in the world. For more modest fans like Ernest Hemingway, however, the standard Montblanc model served...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Capitalist Tool | 12/6/2006 | See Source »

...Mitchell for some tips. “An… item, carved some time before 1248, was unearthed in Bergen on a small wooden stave... It reads: ‘You will f**k Rannveig the Red. It will be bigger than a man’s pr*ck and smaller than a horse’s pr*ck.’ There can be little doubt but that one of the individuals whose fate was conjured on this charm—its 2nd person ‘you’—believed the inscription capable of directing...

Author: By Nicole G. White, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hey, Professor Mitchell! | 10/25/2006 | See Source »

...Logan wrote. “Had Bishop been asked whether her repudiated poems, and some drafts and fragments, should be published after her death, she would have replied, I believe, with a horrified ‘No,’” Vendler wrote. Louise Glück, former poet laureate of the United States, told an audience at Harvard Hillel last night that she was encouraged as a young poet reading the unpolished works of poets like William Butler Yeats. Vendler’s assertions are not only being challenged by fellow poetry critics but by at least...

Author: By Samuel P. Jacobs, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Literary Titans Clash | 4/7/2006 | See Source »

...Glück was appointed the poet laureate of the United States in 2003, and Averno is her 11th poetry collection. Among other honors, she won the Pulitzer Prize for her 1992 collection “The Wild Iris,” and the 1985 National Book Critics Circle Award for her 1985 collection “The Triumph of Achilles...

Author: By Flavio S. Campos, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Pulitzer Poet Reads at Hillel | 4/6/2006 | See Source »

...longtime resident of Cambridge, Glück does not make many public appearances. She taught at Williams College from 1983 to 2003, commuting to the western Massachusetts campus. In 2004, she became the Rosencranz writer in residence at Yale...

Author: By Flavio S. Campos, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Pulitzer Poet Reads at Hillel | 4/6/2006 | See Source »

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