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...vision of an expanded federal role in promoting American culture isn??t entirely unprecedented, especially in challenging times. Although it only hired a few employees, during the Great Depression, the Farm Security Administration received a mandate for a national photography project that did much to lift the spirits of the country. In the early days of both the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, officials lobbied hard for an Arts Secretary. Shortly after President Obama’s election, music composer and mogul Quincy Jones briefly pushed for a cabinet-level position so the average American kid might know...
...People have claimed that this isn??t even a play; it was written without characters, without setting, without any context for the scenes whatsoever. You can literally go through and make anything you want out of them,” Stone explains. “There are two traditional ways of looking at it. The first method is to look at each scene as a distinct world and focus on the discontinuity of each scene and how each one addresses different issues in the modern world,” Stone says. “The other method...
...summary of the narrative thread or a pinpointing of the poem’s speaker, for instance—are as important as emotionally subjective reactions. Both are more difficult (the former to produce, the latter to explain) in contemporary poetry than, say, in a Shakespearean sonnet. This isn??t to say that Shakespeare isn??t complex, or less complex than contemporary lyric poems. It is that the difficulties of poetry have spread from the depth of the emotion expressed into the poem’s literal coherence and project...
...honest opinion? It doesn’t matter. Unless you are a particularly experienced and skillful reader of poetry, I do not think there is much “meaning” to be had at poetry readings. Instead, I propose that this isn??t really the point of poetry readings, and that rather, the environment of the poetry reading paradoxically makes poetry more accessible by making no pretensions to being strictly analytically intelligible...
...danger associated with substance abuse is always a lurking threat. Considering that the fine line between occasional use and dependence isn??t always so easy to maintain, Simonton warns that consistent drug use can quickly devolve into a harmful and unproductive habit. “The minimal research that has been conducted suggests that marijuana does not enhance creativity. In fact, it seems to depress creativity, especially when the use is chronic,” he writes in an email...