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...That's a prescription the nonagenarian doctor?and part-time poet, novelist and composer?has clearly followed himself. He first joined the staff of St. Luke's International Hospital in Tokyo in 1941 and stayed on full-time until 1998. He served as president for the last 24 years of his career, which included running the hospital's response to the Aum Shinrikyo sarin attacks in 1995, at 83. When it comes to aging well, Hinohara is less concerned with the specifics of diet and exercise?though he personally restricts himself to 1,300 calories a day, sleeps little...
DIED. NIPSEY RUSSELL, 80, comic known as the "poet laureate of television" for his signature, often political, impromptu verse; in New York City. One of the first blacks to co-star in a sitcom (Car 54, Where Are You?), Russell was best known for reciting his topical poetry ("The opposite of pro is con/ That fact is clearly seen/ If progress means move forward/ Then what does Congress mean?") on variety and game shows like Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In and To Tell the Truth...
...When they met, Claudel was 17, the daughter of a provincial French bureaucrat so dedicated to his gifted children that he moved the family to Paris to further their education. (It paid off twice. Camille's younger brother would grow up to be the famous poet, diplomat and archconservative Catholic Paul Claudel.) Rodin was 41, on the brink of fame after decades of frustration. He was also a dedicated satyr. The dancer Isadora Duncan, whom he would meet some years later, once said that whenever they were together she felt like "a nymph in front of a centaur." Though Rodin...
...Pinsky—who will be doing a similar reading this evening at the Harvard Hillel—also has a more academic following. Many critics consider the Boston University professor as important a modern American poet as William Carlos Williams, and in 1997, the Library of Congress selected Pinsky to be the nation’s ninth poet laureate. His translation of “The Inferno of Dante” also won awards from the L.A. Times and the Academy of American Poets...
...mentor Saul to become king, battled his son Absalom for power, and envisioned the city of Jerusalem. The author’s carefully-constructed prose takes the remoteness of the biblical tale and turns it into accessible drama; even when using prose, Pinsky operates with the grace of a poet...