Word: poet
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...written more vividly about today's troubled male psyche than the poet Robert Bly, author of the best-selling Iron John. In his new book, The Sibling Society, Bly argues that we have become a culture of squabbling siblings, determined to end authority. TIME asked Bly to reflect on the Unabomber suspect's behavior...
...SHOW WHAT COMPUTERS CANNOT DO, match one with a poet. If the machine has any intelligence, it will say nolo contendere. The computer should compete with Seamus Heaney, the Nobel laureate poet, not with a chess master like Kasparov. This doesn't mean that Heaney has a "soul" and the machine does not. It means that nature's thinkers--humans, with their art, humor and compassion--can be mimicked by science but never matched. Not now. Not ever. DANIEL C. MAGUIRE Milwaukee, Wisconsin...
...class leader, who complimented Stone on his war films and Natural Born Killers, which Marcos had seen even though he has been in the jungle since 1994. "I thought Oscar week was a good time to do something else," says Stone, who found the rebel leader to be a "poet, philosopher and a very romantic figure." No movies are planned about him, however. In fact, Stone's planning no movies at all. "I need a rest," he says...
DIED. ODYSSEUS ELYTIS, 84, Greek poet and 1979 Nobel laureate best known for The Axion Esti (Worthy It Is, 1959), an epic that wedded a modern sensibility to Greek history; in Athens...
DIED. LADY CAROLINE BLACKWOOD, 64, striking Anglo-Irish aristocrat known for her witty writing and her high-profile, high-culture marriages to painter Lucian Freud, composer Israel Citkowitz and poet--drinking buddy Robert Lowell; of cancer; in Manhattan. DIED. MCLEAN STEVENSON, 66, actor; of a heart attack; in Tarzana, California. Stevenson starred in the first three seasons of the '70s television hit M*A*S*H as Lieut. Colonel Henry Blake, a fumbling fisherman-out-of-water who ruled over the blood and irony of an Army hospital during the Korean...