Word: slating
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...have a new Poet Laureate, and we should all be proud. Robert Pinsky, translator of Dante's Inferno and poetry editor of Internet magazine Slate, was named United States Poet Laureate on Friday. Pinsky, a 56-year-old native of Long Branch, New Jersey, teaches creative writing at the graduate center of Boston University. He has taught at Stanford and Wellesley in the past and is off to Northwestern to be writer-in-residence...
...wigs are deep into the Internet thing, that's for sure. James H. Billington, the Librarian of Congress, referred to Pinsky's job at Slate as "his interest in making poetry accessible through digital technology on the Internet." Why mention digital technology? Why mention technology...
When heaven comes up in public debate these days, it is often just as metaphor for the concerns of a perfectible secular kingdom of man, as in the debate that started in the Washington Post last month and continued online in Slate over Jesus' statement that "it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God." Peter Wehner, policy director for Jack Kemp's think tank, Empower America, decried the worldliness of Christians who feel they can serve both God and Mammon--resulting...
DOES MICHAEL KINSLEY KNOW ABOUT THIS? Since 1839, a mineral vein along the Vermont-New York border has furnished slate for thousands of roofs, including that of the White House. The Slate Valley Museum in Granville, New York, documents the quarry region...
...rock and rap acts do on a regular basis, but as far as country acts go, the only other performer to pull that off is veteran megaseller Garth Brooks. Last week Rimes continued her winning streak, taking the Grammy for Best Female Country Vocal Performance and beating out a slate of more heavily favored rockers--including the pop-ska band No Doubt--to win the highly coveted award for Best New Artist. "I was in shock, and still am," she said backstage. But even in that moment of unexpected triumph, Rimes maintained a precocious awareness of her place in country...