Word: pastorale
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It didn't take long. The promise by the G-8 leaders meeting in Scotland early last month to "combat world poverty and save and improve human life" had barely been made when the images of starving Africans filled our television screens. In Niger some 2.5 million people face starvation...
This particular strip appears during the book's best sequence, about a trip to Yellowstone National Park. What could be more American than a road trip to Yellowstone? A month and a half's worth of strips detail the adventures, with each daily location noted in the lower corner, "Cedar...
Somewhere in the middle, I fell in love with the game of baseball, its silent rhythm and cadence, the subtleties of its design, its pastoral beauty.
Perhaps the primary similarity between Kumin’s poems and Frost’s—even more than their common grounding in the New England pastoral landscape—is their sheer accessibility to lay audiences. “I don’t think it requires any...
DVB: By virtue of his central and high profile role in the previous papacy, we certainly know more about Benedict XVI than about many of the people who might have gotten the job. If there is a question mark over what he may do in the course of his own...