Word: poets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...England, catapulted to fame with a different Shakespearean work: the 1967 play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, an existential reimagining of two characters from Hamlet. Since then his work has been known for its wordplay and highbrow subject matter--such as chaos theory in Arcadia, or the life of poet A.E. Housman in The Invention of Love, now running in London. Many of his plays have been criticized for their emotional inaccessibility, but, says Stoppard a bit testily, "If people think it, then they think it. That's fine." In fact, romantic passion has long been a preoccupation...
...video clips include segments of Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West '74 talking about freedom, actor Whoopi Goldberg on race, Jones discussing music, poet Maya Angelou speaking about the black diaspora and U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan discussing Africa. Appiah and Gates also have a clip on the encyclopedia's origins...
...three-month period of her conversations with Monica Lewinsky are self-incriminating, an eloquent and chilling record of ongoing personal treachery. What is surprising is how many contemporary Americans find Tripp's conduct as hellish as Dante would have. We live at a far remove from the medieval poet's moral cosmology. Where he prescribed eternal damnation and torture, we are inclined to recommend therapy, to empathize, to view the malefactor as a victim...
...story on Peter Ackroyd's biography of Thomas More [HISTORY, Dec. 7], you mentioned his next book, a biography of the City of London. Ackroyd referred to London as an "ugly, vandalized city." But every true Londoner thinks his city "more fair," with a "mighty heart," as did the poet Wordsworth when he crossed Westminster Bridge one morning in the 19th century. Seeing "ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples, all bright and glittering in the smokeless air," he thought it "a sight touching in its majesty." Londoners are so friendly, with a great sense of humor. They didn...
Maybe you know the myth, maybe you don't. It simply doesn't matter. Forget all your preconceptions about Bob Dylan--the poet-troubadour, the over-rated 60's protest-song writer, Mr. "Blowin' in the Wind", or even the man with a voice that sounds like a cat choking on a hairball. It simply doesn't matter--Live 1996 will surprise Dylan-lovers, haters and I-don't-knowers alike...