Word: poets
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...Bejar is a poet, a philosopher, and quite possibly a madman...
...photos and plenty of practical getting-around advice. The loving descriptions will help the reader explore world-famous monuments like the Qutb Minar, a magnificent 800-year-old tower, the Lodi tombs and mosques, and lesser-known marvels such as the Jamali Kamali, the tomb of a 16th century poet and his companion. Spanning from the Middle Ages through the British Raj to the present, the book shows how Delhi accumulated history like geological strata. So, following Peck's road map, you can wander through the market of Chandni Chowk in old Delhi, taking note as you pass in quick...
...Sunshine Band's I'm Your Boogie Man and the Village People's Y.M.C.A. Are these the Winter Olympic Games or a disco inferno? It does make some sense. For this is a country particularly proud of Infernos. Indeed, after the thump-thump-thumping came a reading from the poet-prophet Dante, with the Italian actor Giorgio Albertazzi reciting an inspiring passage from The Divine Comedy. In it, Ulysses urges his aging and tired band of sailors to go on with him to search for new worlds. In a fiery scene, scores of legs kicked in the air evoked...
...does make some sense. For this is Italy, a country particularly proud of infernos. Indeed, after the thump, thump, thumping came a reading from the peninsula's poet-prophet, with the Italian actor Giorgio Albertazzi reciting an inspiring passage from Dante's Divine Comedy. In a fiery scene, scores of legs kicked in the air, evoking the sinners' feet in the Inferno's Canto XX. How unholy is the thrill when you sense that the circles of hell have, in the end, been transformed into the Olympic rings...
...surroundings but that he felt compelled to respond to Lowery. He went on to note that when he was president and he met with Lowery, the African-American preacher usually got the best of him. "It was Lowery 21, Bush 3." Bush added in a reference to the poet Maya Angelou, "Maya, you have nothing to worry about." And in a rebuke to Lowery's poem, he quipped: " Joe, don't quit your day job." When former President Clinton mounted the pulpit, to thunderous applause reflecting his enduring popularity among African-Americans, he joked that Bush may have said...