Word: poets
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...Burroughs’ bestseller. Newcomer Joseph Cross takes his first leading role as Augusten, a boy growing up in the 1970s with two feuding parents. A young Augusten develops a close relationship with his mother Deirdre (Annette Bening, “American Beauty”). She is a struggling poet who only wants respect from her peers, and her alcoholic husband Norman—played with the perfect mixture of exhaustion and sarcasm by Alec Baldwin. When Norman walks out on the family, Deirdre begins seeing Dr. Finch (Brian Cox, “The Bourne Identity”), an unorthodox...
...news to anyone. But the positions aren’t always what you’d expect. When Raja G. Haddad ’05 left Harvard, he was an important member of the university’s artistic community. He was president of the Signet Society, a published poet, and co-founder of the Cinematic, Harvard’s student-run film journal. But when he returned to Harvard Square’s Brattle Theater two weeks ago, it wasn’t as a visiting director or journalist. He came as an employee of Katzenbach Partners...
Another firm boasted in its advertisements in this newspaper about how it “put a poet in charge of designing an automated trading block.” I can see Emily Dickinson scrawling slant rhyme over a life of corporate drudgery now—I had never entertained the thought / of running Lehman’s automated trading block...
While living in Italy during World War II, the poet and Mussolini fan broadcast anti-U.S. radio commentaries. Imprisoned by the U.S. Army in an outdoor cage, he suffered a breakdown and was found mentally incompetent to stand trial for treason...
...Mused Dmitri Furman, Professor of the Russian Academy's of Sciences Institute of Europe: "In Soviet times, funerals of individuals frowned upon by the state but beloved by the people emerged as the only form of spontaneous public protest." Furman invoked the funeral of poet Boris Pasternak in 1960, which grew into the first spontaneous demonstration by the Soviet intelligentsia in decades. He also recalled the funeral of poet and bard Vladimir Vysotsky in 1980. In contrast to the refined Pasternak, the folksy Vysotsky, perennially restricted and harassed by the authorities, was as popular among ordinary Soviets as Elvis Presley...