Word: sylvia
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...after he turned 40, a writer. But that boyhood hunger for discovery would help shape 13 novels, six books of children's fiction and 10 nonfiction works of history, biography, criticism and reportage. Add his mountain of articles, television scripts and poems, plus the 400 books by other poets (Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney) that he produced at his small publishing house Sceptre Press, and Booth must rank as a giant of modern English letters. So why haven't more people heard of him? Many kids will appreciate his Music on the Bamboo Radio, about a boy stranded...
...DIED. JOHN G. (JACK) MCCLELLAND, 81, flamboyant Canadian publisher who shepherded the careers of Margaret Atwood, Alice Munro, Mordecai Richler and many others; in Toronto. Known for his publicity stunts, McClelland once donned a toga with author Sylvia Fraser and rode in a chariot to promote her novel The Emperor's Virgin. "I can usually tell if a manuscript is good," he once said, "but I can't tell...
...Moira L. Hill ’04, Leslie Sierra Jamison ’04, Kate D. Nesin ’03-’04, Matthew N. Ocheltree ’04, Alexander A. Pollen ’04, Benjamin I. Schapira ’04 and Sylvia Yang ’04. Jyoti S. Kandlikar ’04 received an honorable mention...
...testament to Ma’s commitment to exploring unchartered creative territory. Ma has collaborated with musicians for the soundtrack of Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and even on the recording of an Andre Previn composition, with lyrics by Toni Morrison, sung by soprano Sylvia McNair and accompanied by Previn as pianist...
Strategically located at eye-level near benches on the heavily trafficked band of river between the Eliot Bridge and the Weeks Footbridge, the signs bear contextually apropos poems, dealing with themes such as spring and ducks, and written by poets such as Horace, Rumi, and Sylvia Plath...