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...scholar who has written about Brokeback Mountain, and I remain moved by Ledger's extraordinary portrayal of Ennis. As one who has followed with admiration Ledger's amazing career through the years, I feel he deserved to be on the cover of TIME after his premature death. Clifton Snider, English Dept., California State University, Long Beach, California...
...Britain perhaps has had the most conflicts between Protestants and Catholics of any country in history. Following the decades of disputes and instability of the Reformation, the English Civil War, and reign of James II, Parliament passed the Act of Settlement in 1701 to avoid further future political crises. Of the act’s eight major provisions, two are still significant today: one that explicitly forbids Catholics from ascending to the throne and another that has been interpreted by some British legal scholars as forbidding Catholics from the Prime Ministership. Had Blair converted while in office, he may have...
...first—and only—time that I read Homer’s “The Odyssey” was in my high school freshman English class. I hated it. I was alternately bored with the flush language, infuriated by Odysseus’s ego and infidelity, and frustrated by what I saw as Penelope’s pathetic loyalty. I kept on putting down “The Odyssey” to sneak a peek at the next book on the syllabus, which I thought to be far more satisfying: “The Scarlet Pimpernel...
...building viable trust,” said Yongdeok Kim, president of the Seoul-based foundation, which will dispense the grant over the five years to the Early Korea Project. The grant will fund a series of workshops and publications, including an academic journal presenting Korean scholarship in English. The Early Korea Project—an initiative under the Korea Institute at the Center for Government and International Studies—aims to promote and lead research of Korean history, over a period from the Paleolithic era to the 1000 AD., in the western world. “It?...
...before take the opportunity to go to a Dunster House Opera production. It’s a really important aspect of the opera’s mission to make the genre available to people who might not have very much experience with opera at all. All productions are in English so people who show up can understand them without having done preparatory work in Italian. Acting as a director rather than a producer (a role he filled last year), Spellberg says he enjoyed incorporating his own ideas into the production. Spellberg: It’s a more fun job than...