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...What's the origin of the alphabet tradition? In the back of my mind, when I thought I would write a mystery novel, I understood the virtue of having titles that readers-at-large could recognize so that they'd know you had a next book out. I was reading an Edward Gorey cartoon book called The Gashlycrumb Tinies, and his book is a series of pen-and-ink drawings of Victorian children being done in various ways. If you have not read it, it is truly amusing. His book goes, "A is for Amy who fell down the stairs...
...told the board members at what you might call his job audition that their museum was "moribund," "gray" and "dying." When he got to his new desk, he was 35, the youngest director in the museum's history, and he walked into the building with all flags flying. (Read a TIME 1967 article about Hoving's new tenure...
...This is performance, and these are good skills to know,” he says, referring to competitive speech. “But if you’re really concerned about the things you read in the news, you have to stand up and do something...
Evidence of this cinematography is found in one of “Bright Star”’s most passionate scenes when Keats and Brawne read the poem “La Belle Dame Sans Merci” to each other. Houghton’s inscribed copy of Keat’s poem, “Lamia,” to Brawne certainly alludes to the possible ways the two romantics expressed their love through prose...
...attention, all the reviews, all the people seeing it—it’s a great boost for Keats and the study of English poetry,” he said. “I don’t think many people outside of the undergraduate community would [otherwise] read his works...