Word: twains
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Skinny went to bed/Fatty rolled over and Skinny was dead"? Fatty and Skinny, if the scholarly evidence is to be believed, might not share a bed in the future, when every couple is one or the other. You're either Posh & Becks or Tom & Roseanne, and never the twain shall meet...
Barr also ruffled some feathers. A zealous and unembarrassed populist, he declared his determination to make poetry less morose and more entertaining. He endowed a post called the Children's Poet Laureate. He created the Mark Twain Poetry Award, "recognizing a poet's contribution to humor in American poetry." Barr also published several essays criticizing the state of American poetry. He accused it of "intellectual and spiritual stagnation." He called out poets for being addicted to lyric poetry (as opposed to, say, epic or satirical poetry) and for being obsessed with formal experimentation. He dissed M.F.A. programs for churning...
...There is a great Mark Twain quote—‘I never let schooling get in the way of my education.’ There’s more you can learn besides what is in the classroom,” Melvoin says. “Even from traveling in the summer—I liked the person I was when I came back, it gave me perspective that complemented what I was learning in the classroom...
CORRECTION: The April 20 arts article "East is East, West Is West; Twain Meet" incorrectly attributed comments made by Vivien Wu '08 to Eva Luo '08. Each quotation in the story attributed to Luo should have been attributed to Wu, who is the costume manager for the Asian American Dance Troupe's cultural show "Eastbound...
...ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict, for example, he argues that Christian-American faith works to support the Israelis, while economic concerns fall in favor of the Arabs. Rather than informing the American people about the Middle East, popular depictions by everyone from Mark Twain to Edith Wharton to Disney tend to propagate a fantastic image of the region...