Word: poetes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Finnish poet Eino Hjalmar Friberg died Saturday in his Cambridge home...
...poet, who received a Master's Degree in 1976 from Harvard's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, will be remembered by the Harvard community through an annual prize in Finnish Literature established in his honor by the Germanic Languages and Literature Department...
...Longfellow is not a poet who is particularlystudied these days--he's not in fashion," Morrissaid...
...Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky, a new pop opera by avant-garde composer John Adams, radical black poet June Jordan, iconoclastic director Peter Sellars and 26 urban-graffiti artists, raises an interesting question: Is it possible to be so politically correct that one becomes politically incorrect? Or to put it another way, Are some groups of people so inherently villainous that it is perfectly acceptable to stereotype, ridicule and otherwise bash them...
Adams and Sellars are no strangers to topical political controversy. Their two previous operatic collaborations, Nixon in China and The Death of Klinghoffer, both set to elegant, literate librettos by poet Alice Goodman, tackled explosive subjects in unconventional ways. Nixon presented a surprisingly intimate, sympathetic portrait of the former President, while Klinghoffer roused the ire of some American Jews with its compassionate presentation of Palestinian suffering. Jordan, the team's new librettist, is a political activist whose lapidary vernacular libretto uses a catastrophic Los Angeles earthquake as a metaphor for the shattering power of love...