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...1300s, thought a 90-year-old Joseph ridiculous in light of the rigors of travel in Egypt and recalibrated his age at Jesus' birth to 36, the Aristotelian "prime of life." In contrast to earlier descriptions of a distant and alienated parent, Gerson portrayed (in a 2,957-line poem, among other vehicles) an adoring father to Jesus: "Joseph leads him," he wrote. "Joseph soothes him with kisses." Meanwhile, Bernardine of Siena, a powerhouse preacher whom Miesel describes as "the Billy Graham of his day," scored points with the Italian merchant class by pointing out that in Egypt and back...
...Bracing for war, but praying for peace/ Using his power so evil will cease." Excerpt from "THE LEADER," a poem deleted from a Pakistani 11th-grade English textbook after it was discovered that the first letters of each line spelled out "President George W. Bush...
...acoustical masterpiece have been sung many times before but it bears repeating. The sound of the orchestra and chorus resonated deep within the wood paneled walls and surrounded the audience with Beethoven’s musical interpretation of the famed “Ode to Joy” poem by Friedrich Schiller, whose message of universal brotherhood under the wings of joy regardless of race, religion or political standing is as relevant today as it was in Beethoven’s time...
...dimensionality and three-dimensionality. “Input,” a 2004 installation at Ohio University in her hometown of Athens, Ohio, consists of a set of computer punch-card style rectangles arranged within a 3.5-acre park. Words and phrases are engraved on each rectangle, a multidirectional poem of sorts composed by Lin and her brother, Tan.The piece’s unconventional form fits its content. “Memory is non-narrative and non-linear,” Lin said of the work, which partially involves her own nostalgia for the campus. “People...
Members also composed much poetry and song dedicated to their secrecy. The following poem, dated 1909, was written in their record book: All jolly Clubbers off on a spree Out from Cambridge, in Wellesley Not at all where we said we would be Sssh – ssssh – sssssh!... Our steps fly to the Worcester Cars that we have grown so used to Our blackballed friends are always on the car Yet cheerfully we meet them and With pleasant lies we greet them And we go, and none shall Tell them where...