Word: poets
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...first was to the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow House in Cambridge at 105 Brattle St. The house was once headquarters for General George Washington and later home to Longfellow, a renowned poet, scholar and educator...
...felt overwhelmed," Clinton told the Associated Press while touring with Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54-'56 (D-Mass.) and Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky. "We have a lot of work to do to make sure this house can convey what happened here," she said...
Dawkins' thesis has integrity. But the proof he offers does not. The whole title of Dawkins' book, Unweaving the Rainbow, alludes to an accusation that the romantic poet, John Keats, once directed at Newton for "unweaving the rainbow by reducing it to its prismatic colors." And so, instead of speaking of science and humanities in a broad sense, Dawkins uses Unweaving the Rainbow to function as an odd sort of rebuttal in which he accuses Keats (and every other romantic poet who criticized science) as being patently wrong. Although Dawkins' writing is lush and poetic, his approach is bizarre...
DIED. RUMER GODDEN, 90, exquisitely lyrical British novelist, playwright and poet; in Dumfriesshire, Scotland. Godden set much of her work in India, where she grew up. Although she wrote a total of 70 books and collections, she was best known for the 1939 novel Black Narcissus, in which nuns fight to establish a school and hospital on a Himalayan mountain. Of the 1946 film version, the prickly Godden observed, "I hate it...Everything about it was phony...
...Piano's words, architecture involves walking "the knife edge between art and science": One day the architect is a poet, the next day an engineer. That fine edge was highlighted in the first part of his speech, which dealt with his redesign of Berlin's Potsdamer Platz. This enormous, 5 million square foot space resonates with cultural significance, since it is both the former cultural center of Europe as well as the center of tragedy. The Cold War divide between East and West Germany, however, is now a matter for the history books, and Piano's task, as he noted...