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...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...
...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...
Back in Harvard Yard, in the rarefied confines of Harvard’s Houghton Collection, resides “Des destinées de l’ame...,” a collection of essays meditating on the human spirit by Arsène Houssaye, a French poet and essayist...
...Musing on Sri Lanka, he draws upon the words of Michael Ondaatje, not a colonizer surveying foreign ground, but a homesick exile looking back on the world he misses. Reading to a New York audience soon after Sept. 11, he shares the work of Agha Shahid Ali, a Kashmiri poet who has lived with civil war and terror all his life. Bringing a young republic a larger sense of history, and so of suffering, is not the least of the achievements of this sober and highly dignified book...
...edition of Shakespeare’s complete works “a splendid, enduring accomplishment.” Evans maintained his intellectual passion and focus even in his last years, his colleagues said. Evans finished correcting the proofs on his final work, a study of the lesser-known Elizabethan poet Robert Parry, about a month before his death, Tobin said. “For someone his age to continue to have done the work he did was inspiring,” Engell said. But Evans’ personality was just as remarkable, according to Engell, who added that despite...