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15 Mar 2007, 5:53 am
He also strays to the light side in naming a poet laureate for his bench and including an order that ended a dispute with a game of "rock, paper, scissors. [read post]
16 Jun 2023, 11:22 pm
AI is a tool that amplifies an artist’s passion, whether the artist be a legal blogger, a poet or a news columnist. [read post]
9 May 2022, 6:21 am
“That is especially true because applicants include novelists, poets, painters, designers, and others without legal training. [read post]
3 May 2011, 5:31 pm
Regardless of how calm good and nice we think we have become, as long as we and others have desires and needs, we will clash, and if we don't expect this and learn how to deal with it, we will either have to live in some sequestered self-protective way, or be embroiled in stressful controversy much of the time.Norman Fischer is a poet, author, Zen Buddhist priest and former abbot of the San Francisco Zen Center. [read post]
9 Jun 2008, 8:01 pm
Nevertheless, philosophers, poets, and physicists wax rhapsodic in lauding the points in intellectual space where truth achieves what Bertrand Russell called "a beauty cold and austere. [read post]
21 Mar 2007, 9:13 am
In his historic overview of the "science of memory" in Mappa.Mundi Magazine, Carl Malamud tells the story of the poet Simonides of Ceos, who witnessed the destruction of the banquet hall where he sang his poem just minutes before the collapse. [read post]
31 May 2018, 3:30 am
So, for instance, Phillip Finkelpearl, author of an excellent book on the important playwright John Marston who lived at Middle Temple in the 1590s, focuses on the fact that a severe housing shortage in London led poets like John Donne and playwrights like Marston to live alongside those pursuing a legal education at the Inns.1 The lusty and lively environment of Elizabethan London, it is conjectured, led/misled many of those would-be lawyers into literary pastimes, for example, attending… [read post]
2 Apr 2012, 12:14 am
For more information on the library’s celebrations, please visit: http://www.portlandlibrary.com/programs/Poetrysignage2012.pdfNational Poetry Month, first introduced in 1996 by the Academy of American Poets, was officially proclaimed by former President Bill Clinton on April 1, 1996. [read post]
17 Aug 2009, 4:59 am
Bank v Meliso, 229 AD2d 478; Poet v Kolenda, 142 AD2d 633). [read post]
12 Aug 2011, 7:01 am
And that’s what happened in 2007 when prize winning poet Stephen Dunn stopped by St. [read post]
19 Feb 2010, 4:30 am
The law is not often a subject for the poets and singer songwriters, but when it is, such artists are usually at its mercy. [read post]
3 Mar 2006, 5:47 am
" How much better, for example, to take the poet Rabindranath Tagore's description of the Taj Mahal, a monument to the Emperor Shah Jahan's wife, as "a teardrop on the cheek of time", than merely to describe its physical appearance? [read post]
6 Jul 2007, 8:11 pm
I took up Blaise Cendrars, Stendhal, dead French poets and German writers like Bertolt Brecht and Gunter Grass.But the Heinlein book that has had the most lasting impression on our family, curiously, is the 1950s classic Cold War thriller, The Puppet Masters. [read post]
23 Dec 2019, 8:48 am
The film introduces Dee, a writer and professor who savors her life-long passion for African dance; Anita, whose work as an actress, dancer, playwright and poet spans eight decades and a host of adventures; and Paul, who started painting at 51 and helps redefine “retirement” to be more about service than shuffleboard. [read post]
16 Aug 2007, 4:58 pm
Not that I am any closer to being a poet than a judge, but the message is clear. [read post]
8 Jun 2012, 2:00 am
The famous Jewish poet, Yannai, is considered among the first paytanim (authors of piyyutim) to use acrostics in his poetry and many of his lost poems were rediscovered only when the scholar Israel Davidson happened notice Yannai’s name spelt acrostically in a document recovered from the famous Cairo Geniza. [read post]
22 Jan 2012, 9:00 am
His widow Sayuri is a poet, who brought me a pamphlet with some of her photos. [read post]
30 Aug 2010, 4:12 am
Adam Smith tells us that except a few poets, orators and historians, the greater part of the men of letters of Greece and Rome were public or private teachers, and that this was true from teh days of Lysias and Isocrates, Plato and Aristotle, down to those of Plutarch and Epicteus, Suetonius and Quinctillian. [read post]
23 Dec 2010, 7:30 pm
When we are alone on a starlit night; when by chance we see the migrating birds in autumn descending on a grove of junipers to rest and eat; when we see children in a moment when they are really children; when we know love in our own hearts; or when, like the Japanese poet Basho we hear an old frog land in a quiet pond with a solitary splash -- at such times the awakening, the turning inside out of all values, the "newness," the emptiness and the purity of vision that make… [read post]
4 Jul 2012, 10:14 am
The latter group of books helped Americans, as the Scottish poet Robert Burns put it, "To see oursels as ithers see us! [read post]
