Word: herbert
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Since the death in the past few years of conductors Herbert von Karajan and Leonard Bernstein, music lovers have amused themselves with a rather desperate parlor game: Where will the next great maestro come from? And when? Well, here's one answer: from California, and right now. From his dazzling appearances during the past two weeks with the Lyons Opera and Ballet in San Francisco and Berkeley, Kent Nagano has confirmed his spot at the head of the class of young conductors leading music into the future...
Neither Johnson nor Herbert J. Vallier,associate director for finance and administrationin charge of the police department, is on theadvisory group, according to Marshall...
...police officers and security guards who came to the game all volunteered and were not paid for playing. Police Chief Paul E. Johnson and Herbert J. Vallier, associate director for finance and administration in charge of the police department, were among those attending...
...about the facts in his life, his poems aren't considered "straight poems." Therefore I resist seeing my poems as identity-specific. I don't think of my poems as being for a gay audience, just because they deal with gay love, say, any more than I expect that Herbert or Donne thought of their poems as being for only religious readers. I don't even feel that I have a gay readership, in fact. Only recently have gay bokstores begun to carry my books. The people who read my poems are people who read poems, not gay or straight...
...have borrowed some forms and ideas from George Herbert, who, in addition to being a poet of piety, is a poet of insurrection. His divided self is what draws me to him. That there are always factions warring within us is an essential truth I like seeing transmuted into poetry...