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...McMillan reveals the vivid emotions that have kept the heart of the collection beating all this time. The poems of the Hyakunin Isshu are waka: 31-syllable verses of five lines. Like the better known haiku, which they spawned, waka have a brevity and a strictness of topic and word-choice that demand economy of expression. They exemplify the idea that art is born of constraints and dies in freedom. But imposing restrictions that are unnatural in English has doomed many translations. McMillan succeeds by following a more sensible rule: abandoning the stipulated meter, but making the poems as lyrical...
...that the one event we know with absolute certainty will occur is still one we improvise? Do we lower our voices, dress in black, save a lock of hair as the Victorians did and wove into jewelry? Do you let young children see a corpse--the very word suddenly cold and empty because his flesh and blood no longer matter, his meaning filling the space once his presence is gone? "Is that Grandpa?" our 4-year-old wondered. "No, honey," my husband told her. "He's not here anymore. That's just his body." She worked at this...
...Fifteen Minutes: Word on the street is that you’re writing the songs for John Waters’s newest project—the Broadway adaptation of “Cry-Baby,” which originally starred Johnny Depp. How did you get involved...
...Junior Bar is a great idea because you tend to know a lot more people in your class than you know in other classes,” Demetri said. “I heard from my blockmates about it, and now I’m participating in spreading the word. It’s been pretty small but hopefully it’ll pick up and more people will start coming.” Some students—particularly seniors—were surprised to hear that the juniors had established their own bar schedule. Firth M. McEachern...
...think the key word is transparency,” said Romance Languages department chair Luis Fernández Cifuentes. “He tells all of us what he’s doing and what his plans are. And that is good. That is always a good sign of an administrator...