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...forgettable plaque was placed in 1997 on that gate behind Canaday to commemorate the 25th anniversary of Harvard’s integration of women into the college. Anne Dudley Bradstreet, the 17th-century poet after whom the gate is named, was completely unaffiliated with Harvard, and women certainly have had a relationship with Harvard extending long before...
...playwright, poet and novelist, Soyinka is considered one of contemporary Africa’s greatest literary voices. In 1986, he became the first person of African descent to win the Nobel Prize in Literature...
...magazine marks its quarter century Summits of Style Esoteric treatments in a minimalist setting A Starflyer Is Born In-flight comfort with an internet connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder Like everything in life, Dada is useless," proclaimed the Romanian-born poet Tristan Tzara in 1922, when the subversive art form was in its heyday. Yet nearly a hundred years later, people are still visiting the nerve center of this willfully useless movement. In 1916 the German poet Hugo Ball, who lived in Zurich at the time, opened...
BILLY CORGAN THE BOOK: Blinking with Fists, released Oct. 1 THE BUZZ: Former poet laureate Robert Pinsky's publisher is pushing the collection by this alt rocker, who packed rage and rhythm into his lyrics for the Smashing Pumpkins CRINGEWORTHY VERSE: Atwixt the twine and flowers divine/ Devise the deign in this copper wane THE AUDIENCE: Art-school dropouts...
...subtitle of this CD, A Backwards America, sums up its lyrical philosophy. Songs such as “This American Dream” and “Yes Roam” contrast a traditional view of the United States with the more realistic tracks “The Poet of Emptiness” and “Breathing in Backwards.” Despite the directly negative connotation that these later titles invoke, the lyrics of these pieces surprisingly provide an actively optimistic attitude...