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...brink of the 19th century, in the Scottish town of Dumfries, the poet Robert Burns wrote: “the honest man, tho’ e??er sae poor / Is king o’ men for a’ that.” Two centuries later, and about 100 miles away in St Andrews, poet and musician Don Paterson is striving for the same down-to-earth honesty in his fifth volume of poetry, “Rain.” In this new collection, Paterson amasses popular images of sentimentality and reimagines them amid the hectic cacophony...
This past Monday, while speaking to fourth, fifth, and sixth graders at Benjamin Banneker Charter Public School in Cambridge, Carter relates the importance of “the three E??s: emancipation, education, and earnestness...
...Strauss is best immortalized by the title of one of his greatest books, “La Pensée Sauvage.” “Pensée?? translates literally as “thought,” but in its secondary meaning it can also signify a kind of flower. Lévi-Strauss combined both of these ideas in his own person—the unruly directions in which his thought bloomed speaking to a consuming intellect at once exquisitely savage and fiercely beautiful...
...groups to emerge from that movement, sweater-clad, skinny-white-boy duo Kings of Convenience—otherwise known as Erlend Øye and Eirik Glambek Bøe??have found the most commercial success. Critical acclaim up to this point has been well-deserved: their delicate guitar strumming, occasionally infused with piano, horns, and violin, channels the pared-down acoustics of Pink Moon-era Nick Drake and warm harmonizing of Simon & Garfunkel into gentle, unassumingly beautiful melodies. Øye, the Paul Simon of the pair, sings in a slightly accented baritone about girls he?...
...obscure film directors and their actors. As the plot progresses, however, the associations link one into another until they ensnare the entire world of the novel.Insteadman splits his time between Manhattan’s high society, where he is a fixture more for his headline-garnering astronaut fiancée??Janice Trumbull, whose reentry to earth is blocked by Chinese space mines—than for his good looks or former stardom. Its here that he meets Abneg, a mayor’s aide who recognizes Chase as a disciple of Perkus and helps to close...