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Donald S. Kellermann dies at 83; led Times Mirror research group
Donald S. Kellermann, who brought a new depth to opinion polling on politics, public policy and the media as founding director of the Times Mirror Center for the People & the Press, died Tuesday of liver cancer at his home in Washington, D.C. He was 83....Tags: CBS Corp., Values, Diseases and Illnesses, Companies and Corporations, Elections
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'Prejudices: The Complete Series,' H.L. Mencken
Los Angeles TimesPrejudices The Complete Series H.L. Mencken 2 volume, boxed set Library of America, $70 There are writers whose books are stacked on my nightstand: G.K. Chesterton, Samuel Johnson, Thomas Babington Macaulay — writers whom I spend half an hour...Tags: Philosophy, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Newspaper and Magazine, H.L. Mencken, G.K. Chesterton
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von Trapp to perform at Shippensburg University
tiffanya@herald-mail.comSinger Elisabeth von Trapp — whose grandparents inspired the fictionalized musical play and film “The Sound of Music” — will join Empire Brass for a Christmas concert at the H. Ric Luhrs Center for Performing Arts. The Sunday...Tags: The Sound of Music (movie), Education, Entertainment, Arts and Culture, Colleges and Universities
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Man's Suicide With Bullet, Gas Prompts Lock Down Of Foothill High School
FOX40 NewsFoothill High School has been locked down after a nearby shooting at a park. Police were called to Robert Frost Park after a man shot himself while trying to light a gas canister on fire. According to The Sacramento Bee, the man was trying to ignite the...Tags: Sacramento, Emergency Incidents, Explosions
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Serving poetry with your pumpkin pie
Jacket CopyMany of our Thanksgiving traditions are slightly twisted versions of what really happened. There wasn't any turkey served; the first one was probably in Texas, not Massachusetts; Pilgrims didn't dress in black or wear tall hats. But if our myths...... -
‘The Best of It: New and Selected Poems’ by Kay Ryan
Book review: ‘The Best of It: New and Selected Poems' by Kay Ryan
The Best of It
New and Selected Poems
Kay Ryan
Grove: 270 pp., $24
Contemporary poetry is a bit like visual art. Much of it makes you grab your chin and nod in stumped...Tags: John Freeman, Wallace Stevens, Los Angeles Times
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What do Rue McClanahan & John Wooden have in common?
Orlando Opinionators - Orlando Sentinel“Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.” – John Wooden I’ve been thinking a lot about death lately. Don’t worry, everyone. I’m not going to jump off any br... -
Book review: 'William Golding: The Man Who Wrote "Lord of the Flies" '
William Golding
The Man Who Wrote 'Lord of the Flies': A Life
John Carey
Free Press: 574 pp., $32.50
William Golding, the writer, has been a subject for study: reviews and critical essays, a bibliography and more than 100 books about the books....Tags: Awards and Prizes, Marlborough, Game Playing, Politics, Nobel Prize Awards
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Book Review: Treasured memories of a beloved brother
Anton Chekhov
A Brother's Memoir
Mikhail Chekhov, translated from the Russian by Eugene Alper
Palgrave Macmillan: 230 pp., $25
Anton Chekhov's life is well documented: When he died of consumption in 1904 at age 44, he was honored all over the world....Tags: University of Michigan, Alice Munro, Health and Medical Professionals, Education, Moscow (Russia)
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'Oxford Revisited' by Justin Cartwright
Oxford Revisited Justin Cartwright Bloomsbury: 222 pp., $18 Travel writing is a category filled with subsets and divisions, but there are two principal modes. The first is that of discovery -- a voyager sets out to find a place that he or she has never...Tags: University of Oxford, W.H. Auden, Brideshead Revisited (movie, 2008), University of Michigan, Social Sciences
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The critics: 5 new titles worth checking out
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CRITICISM IN AMERICAN CULTURE: New releases
Here are five titles that put the lie to the notion that criticism is a dying art.
Corn Flakes With
John Lennon
And Other Tales from
a Rock 'n' Roll Life
Robert Hilburn
Rodale: 280 pp., $24.99
Hilburn,...Tags: Bob Dylan, Music Industry, Albert Camus, John Lennon, Arts and Culture
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Extension 720 Classic, Audio Archives, February 2006
Staff reporterDavid Galenson, professor of economics at the University of Chicago, and Joshua Kotin, graduate student in English language and literature and editor of the Chicago Review discuss the nature of artistic genius and evaluate the careers of such diverse...Tags: Religious Conflicts, University of Chicago, Chicago, Pablo Picasso, Arts and Culture
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Original site for Robert Frost topic gallery.