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19 Feb 2021, 6:17 am
"The Notice of Opposition alleges only that the involved mark BURNS NIGHT “is highly evocative of Scotland when used on a whisky product” because the mark refers to celebration of Scottish poet Robert Burns’ birthday (1 TTABVUE 5, paragraph 7). [read post]
29 Aug 2013, 5:17 pm
But poets, though they disfigure the most certain history by their fictions, and use strange liberties with truth where they are the sole historians, as among the Britons, have commonly some foundation for their wildest exaggerations. [read post]
24 Feb 2020, 3:51 am
In 1896 his book Raja Yoga was published, becoming an instant success; it was highly influential in the western understanding of yoga....Many years after Vivekananda's death [Nobel Prize-winning poet] Rabindranath Tagore [said], "If you want to know India, study Vivekananda. [read post]
16 Aug 2014, 8:43 pm
He might not have reached full maturity as a poet (though Southworth thinks a lot of this stuff is better than it gets credit for). [read post]
26 Oct 2012, 10:05 am
Faulkner called himself a failed poet who took up the novel. [read post]
12 Jul 2018, 2:31 pm
In the past two years, we’ve witnessed the targeting of digital rights defenders, journalists, crusaders against sexual harassment, and even poets, often on trumped-up grounds of association with a terrorist organization or “spreading false news. [read post]
26 Feb 2018, 5:53 am
& Rev. (1920) 408 Philosophers are after all like poets. [read post]
25 Nov 2012, 8:03 pm
Speaking as a poet, on the other hand, there is much to be said for having three different words that mean the same thing—the first two you try might not fit the meter or rhyme scheme.Readers curious as to what focal points have to do with the subject of my book (The Machinery of Freedom) can find the answer in an old article with an earlier version of the argument. [read post]
30 Jan 2018, 4:00 pm
”In the NYRB, Antony Beevor reviews four books on the siege of Leningrad, The War Within: Diaries from the Siege of Leningradby Alexis Peri; Leningrad 1941–1942: Morality in a City Under Siegeby Sergey Yarov; Besieged Leningrad: Aesthetic Responses to Urban Disasterby Polina Barskova; Written in the Dark: Five Poets in the Siege of Leningradedited and with an introduction by Polina Barskova.The LA review of Books takes on Mark Perry’s The Pentagon’s Wars:The… [read post]
25 Jan 2021, 4:00 pm
He sits next to his wife, a poet, but he cannot shed the electronic detritus on the screen in front him. [read post]
17 Dec 2011, 4:40 am
In July 1846 Poe picked a fight with the wrong guy, a minor poet and publisher. [read post]
31 Mar 2013, 6:06 am
Fifth poet ever to speak at an inauguration. [read post]
24 Sep 2013, 12:48 pm
Frost thought so, but he was just a poet. [read post]
17 Dec 2014, 9:18 am
In a birthday message to Chelsea, published in the Guardian along with similar messages from other leaders, poet Saul Williams wrote: I know that you have been called names like 'traitor' and a host of others, but please never forget that for many of us who guard the flame that will one day burn the injustice out of empire you are a hero. [read post]
20 Jun 2015, 7:27 pm
The Chinese honor the memory of Qu Yuan, a poet and political activist (3-4 Century BC) on the 5th day of 5th lunar month of every year. [read post]
15 Aug 2016, 6:17 am
Upon the whole you judge wisely;- the trade of editor is best:- and if you can be a poet at the same time,- as most of the editors are, by the by, why, you will kill two birds with the one stone. [read post]
5 Aug 2019, 6:44 pm
Boredom also assures the motivation of Tobola’s poets: ‘Unlike my college students, who were required to take composition, my inmate students came to class because they wanted to learn. [read post]
29 Jul 2019, 10:00 am
This is its usual expression:If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck...Indiana poet James Whitcomb Riley (1849–1916) may have coined the phrase when he wrote:When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.A common variation of the wording of the phrase may have originated much later with Emil Mazey, secretary-treasurer of the United Auto Workers, at a labor meeting in… [read post]
9 Sep 2022, 2:48 am
Apr. 28/1 Short-fingered acolyte Donald Trump may have been introduced to the mystic secrets of the East by dim New-Agey trophy wife Marla.Look at Spy Magazine, in there with all those exalted poets. [read post]
10 Mar 2015, 1:02 am
(LCB) What is most striking, Paul, is that the poets, not the philosophers (much less the theorists of law, politics, economics, society, etc.) appear to understand the essence of the problem.But that has been remarked before--by the very philosophers and moralists who then ignore their own words as they plod forward toward . . . . a false though palatable certainty. [read post]
