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88 books that shaped America, at the Library of Congress
Jacket CopyThe Library of Congress' list of 88 books that shaped America includes poetry, novels, nonfiction, a play, a polemic, books of science and grammar, cookbooks and children's books. What's it missing?... -
10 musical works inspired by Ray Bradbury's writing
Pop & HissIt's common knowledge that science fiction writer Ray Bradbury, who died Tuesday at age 91, was an inspiration to writers and filmmakers. Less obvious are the musicians who drew on Bradbury's work to fuel songs and concept albums. Times pop music critic... -
Word power
Earlier this year, when Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed a 100-book required reading list for his compatriots, it provoked anxiety, rekindling memories of Soviet-era censorship. The furor underscored an important point: that literature plays a...
Tags: Camp David, Carlos Fuentes, Joseph Conrad, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Kenzaburo Oe
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Bill Toth
Bill Toth joined the FOX43 News at Ten team in 2007. He came to WPMT after a stay at WJET/WFXP-TV in Erie, PA where he served as the weekend sports anchor and reporter. Prior to that, he had stints at both Comcast SportsNet and WTTG FOX 5, both based in...Tags: National Collegiate Athletic Association, Sports, National Hockey League, Johns Hopkins University, Basketball
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Romney flip-flops, and so does Obama; what's wrong with that?
What's that you say? You don't hear much about President Barack Obama's flip-flopping? How about: 1) the Obama reversal regarding child farm-labor regulations; 2) the president's (to quote The New York Times) "revers[ing] his two-year-old order halting...
Tags: Hosni Mubarak, Labor Legislation, Republican Party, Robert Byrd, Mitt Romney
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Is that a poem in your pocket, or are you happy to see me?
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Poet Arthur Sze visits Centre College
jbrummett@amnews.comArthur Sze wasn’t on the path to becoming a poet when he entered university. He was good at math and science and was looking to follow in the steps of his chemical engineer father. He started at M.I.T. It was there he began to write — and...Tags: Science and Technology, University of California, Berkeley, Education, Science, Library of Congress
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When Allentown lent a helping hand
In March 1962, a terrible Nor'easter dubbed the Ash Wednesday Storm churned up the East Coast and devastated hundreds of miles of shoreline, including my favorite shore spot, Ocean City, N.J.
That pretty place and other New Jersey resort areas took an...Tags: Ocean City, Car Repair and Maintenance Tips, Ash Wednesday, Entertainment, Radio Industry
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Bay Theatre brings Emily Dickinson to life in season finale
In her end-of-season program note, Bay Theatre Company co-founder and artistic director Janet Luby refers to "the astonishing success of Bay Theatre's 2011-2012 season," and promised that this season's final production would do justice to the preceding...Tags: Concerts, Emily Dickinson, Entertainment, Helen Hayes, Harold Bloom
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Paula Vogel's "Civil War Christmas" Headed For New York
Hartford CourantPaula Vogel's "A Civil War Christmas," which had its world premiere at New Haven's Long Wharf Theatre in 2008, will have its New York bow next season at off-Broadway's New York Theatre Workshop which launched the musical "Rent" and the current Broadway...Tags: New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Music Theater, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Yale Repertory Theatre, Concerts
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Cokie Roberts' new Labrador lost in Bethesda
The Baltimore SunUPDATE, 4/26/2012: Cokie Roberts' missing dog hit by a car A pup recently adopted by famous journalist Cokie Roberts has gone missing. On Monday afternoon, Lab Rescue of the Labrador Retriever Club of the Potomac put out word that a dog just adopted... -
America in the Poetic Imagination
Staff reporterProfessors Nancy Ogle, soprano, and Ginger Yang Hwalek, Ph.D., pianist, both from the University of Maine, will present a hybrid reading/music performance entitled "America in the Poetic Imagination" at Rockford College's Fisher Memorial Chapel on Friday,...Tags: Concerts, Emily Dickinson, Education, Entertainment, W.H. Auden
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