COLUMN: Ted Kennedy: Giants are becoming shadows, one by one May 27, 2008
" What made this even more horrific is that, according to the Snopes site, the boy's father was driving in the car behind him and witnessed his son's death. The snopes site also noted the strong character and bright potential of the victim -- just as much was lost in this tragic, death at the hands of a reckless driver as was lost with Ms. Kopechne's death at the hands of a reckless driver.The snopes column also notes that Ms. Welch and her passenger were on their way to a party at the time. It... (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
More of this story May 24, 2008
On the fourth, Yam broke a tackle by William Blake and ran for the first TD of the game. After last night s performance, Kapaa head coach Kelii Morgado said he was pleased with his players, but they still have a lot to learn. (Lihue Garden Island, HA)
Seeking Innovation From Tradition May 23, 2008
In his book William Blake and the Age of Revolution (New York: Harper and Row, 1969), J. Bronowski argues that poet William Blake was a product of his age, the era of the French, American and industrial revolutions. Far from being an untaught and remote mystic whose poems lay quite outside his times and our tradition;[Blake s] inspiration was both more robust and more universal than this. (Suite101.com)
Britney isn't everyone's role model May 20, 2008
"If a kid looks up to or admires a person -- performer, artist, athlete, whatever -- and chooses to mimic that person's worst characteristics, that is probably an indication of a larger problem. The choice of bad role model is probably more symptom than actual problem."McCusker, who grew up in Haddon Township, N.J., says all his role models "were dead people." Jim Morrison, James Joyce and William Blake top his list, the latter of whom he quotes: "The road of excess leads to the palace of... (Fresno Bee -- Lifestyle)
'Secure me a famous wall' May 17, 2008
The recent British Vision exhibition in Ghent put him firmly and convincingly within a tradition of prophetic intensity that runs from William Blake to Stanley Spencer. The contemporary artist Christopher Le Brun views Burne-Jones as "a proto-surrealist", and certainly The Sleep of Arthur in Avalon appears in reproduction as brilliantly surreal. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
A Grain of Sand: Nature's Secret Wonder [Slide Show] May 15, 2008
"To see a World in a Grain of Sand." When William Blake wrote Auguries of Innocence, he could only imagine just what microscopic vistas are held by the billions of sand granules that clog our toes when we walk on a beach. In , Gary Greenberg takes us to exotic locales in our larger world to explore extraordinary beauty witnessed on a microphotographic scale. (Scientific American)
Ginsberg and Dylan, Seekers May 14, 2008
During the tour Ginsberg read his classic elegy Kaddish and sang William Blake poems set to his own music. An Intepretation of I m Not There. (Suite101.com)
Suze Rotolo: Dylan's kindred spirit in a freewheelin' time May 13, 2008
For his part Dylan soaked up her passion for the likes of William Blake, Bertolt Brecht and Arthur Rimbaud; he inscribed a paperback edition of Byron's poems to her "Lord Byron Dylan." Equally important, her political activism, particularly in the civil rights movement, spurred his thinking and writing about those issues. "She'll tell you how many nights I stayed up and wrote songs and showed them to her and asked her: 'Is this right?' " Dylan told his friend and eventual biographer Robert... (International Herald Tribune)
Back - due to popular demand May 3, 2008
His considerations on Leonardo, his study of Blake - William Blake and the Age of Revolution (1965) - retain their authority. It was this passionate range that made his Ascent of Man a media event as yet unsurpassed. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
First sight: Little Lost David May 2, 2008
Being English, David also credits such closer-to-home figures as William Blake, Simon Armitage and the painter David Shrigley for the dark, misty bent of his music. It's a heady mix, and one that captivates those who happen across it. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Personification Lesson Apr 17, 2008
Classic poems that use personification are as follows: Two Sunflowers Move in the Yellow Room by William Blake, The Train and A Thunder-storm by Emily Dickinson, November Song by Vernon Scannell, and The Cat and the Fiddle by Mother Goose. 3. (Suite101.com)
Paradise regained in Liverpool Apr 13, 2008
It's a celebration of a city, which begins with a William Blake lookalike shuffling through the early verses of 'Jerusalem' and finding that it has no end, and which closes with dark screens lit by tiny lights. Some of these lights prove to be not so much stars as words - the words of Blake's hymn scattered in a Scouse sky. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Blue Hand’ chronicles Ginsberg’s quest for God Apr 13, 2008
Ginsberg had already heard the ancient voice of William Blake reciting poetry inside his Harlem apartment. He had looked outside the window and noticed how everything was created by a living hand, how the sky itself was the living blue hand. (Helena Independent Record, MT)
Why this dismal view of Jerusalem? Apr 12, 2008
Perhaps it is decreed in some ancient scroll that, every five or six years, an Anglican clergyman will make a complete hassock of himself by banning the singing of England s most inspiring hymn, William Blake s Jerusal 00004000 em, from a service in an English church. This time there is an added ecclesiastical frisson. (Times Online)
Book Review: Deborah Baker's 'A Blue Hand' Apr 12, 2008
But Baker dates the intellectual orgins of Ginsberg's India sojourn, much of it with the beautiful, drugged-out Peter Orlovsky by his side, to the summer of 1948, when, an over-age Columbia undergraduate subletting an East Harlem walk-up filled with theology books, he had his well-known auditory hallucination of "an unearthly voice" reciting the William Blake poem he had been reading. It was followed by a vision of the sky, he would later say, as "the living blue hand itself." Baker proposes "a... (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
More Manga for Grownups Apr 8, 2008
Miura does for manga what William Blake does for poetry. The setting of Berserk is inspired by Medieval Europe- the reader is able to witness the graphic violence of war first hand, as well as medieval torture methods, religious persecution, and witch hunts. (Suite101.com)
Patti Smith — Artistic Triple Threat Mar 28, 2008
My mother got me William Blake's Songs of Innocence as a child, and the idea of mixing drawing and handwriting was ingrained in me quite early ... I have my relationship with my mother, but I also have had a very long relationship with Rimbaud or William Blake, and they've given me a lot ... Allen had William Blake and Walt Whitman; he thought Blake, Whitman and himself were a direct line. (Time.com)
A Thinking Man's Speech Mar 21, 2008
Near the end of the speech, Mr. Obama painted an America that didn't summon thoughts of Faulkner but of William Blake. The bankruptcies, the dark satanic mills, the job loss and corporate corruptions. (Wall Street Journal)
Amity High School considering artificial turf field for sports Mar 21, 2008
Amity School Board Chairman William Blake, of Bethany, said the board is still in the information gathering stage, but there is a "significant cost" to installing the turf field. He also said health concerns must also be addressed before the board can move forward. (Orange Bulletin, CT)
Dwight man dies after motorcycle accident Mar 15, 2008
The man was identified as William Blake, who was driving a 1996 Harley-Davidson motorcycle. Dwight Police said they were called to the accident at 4:10 p.m. at the intersection of Franklin Street and Mazon Avenue. (Pontiac Daily Leader, IL)
The curseof youthful harlots Mar 15, 2008
William Blake saw visions. But not even Blake, pottering about naked in his back garden chatting with angels, as he was wont to do, could have fantasticated something as alien to the age he lived in as the Emperors Club, with its diamond-rated filles d'h. (Globe and Mail)
Finding purity through impurity Mar 8, 2008
The vamachara practices contain what William Blake once described as the Road of Excess leading to the Palace of Wisdom. Finding purity through impurity seems to be the principle that claims to unite polarities. (India Times)
What on earth is 42? Mar 8, 2008
" In acting as if life has meaning, we will find, thank God, that it does John CottinghamPhilosopher Having said that, it is possible that questions of meaning are simply of a different sort to questions of matter, the physical world in which science has proven so powerful. If so, asking why there is something rather than nothing with mathematics might make no more sense than asking whether a triangle is happy or whether the rocks in the asteroid belt are friends. Similarly, cosmologists like... (BBC News -- UK)
New in paper: Notable reprints Mar 6, 2008
In 18th-century London, the lives of two children intersect with that of the poet William Blake; fiction. The Invisible Wall: A Love Story That Broke Barriers by Harry Bernstein (Ballantine Books, $14, reprint). (USA Today -- Life)
Blake's prophecy, Bolcom's symphony Feb 29, 2008
The poetry of William Blake has been a near-obsession for Bolcom since his teenage years. Over the course of decades, the composer set Blake's entire "Songs of Innocence and of Experience," creating a massive polystylistic oratorio by the same name. (Boston Globe)
Upside of downDepression is dark and horrible. But is it also good for you? Feb 29, 2008
Robbie Williams, Sir Elton John, Winston Churchill and Stephen Fry (pictured) Writers Tennessee Williams, Sylvia Plath, Evelyn Waugh and Ernest Hemingway Artists Paul Gauguin, Vincent Van Gogh, Edgar Degas, William Blake Performers Caroline Ahern, Ewan McGregor, Morrissey. "There are benefits and that's why it has persisted. It's a tough message to hear while you are in depression but I think that there's a life afterwards," he says. (BBC News -- UK)
College briefs Feb 27, 2008
The following Woodlands students were named to the Texas Tech University Fall 2007 Dean's List: Stephanie Justienne Algranti, freshman, theatre arts; Michael William Blake, freshman, arts and sciences; Joshua Lee Bruhn, freshman, computer engineering; Ronald Alan Buczek, senior, biology; David Thomas Butler, senior, agribusiness; Jessie Clare Cox, sophomore, business administration; Mark C. Cox, senior, international business; Charles D. Culpon, sophomore, music; Crosby Jordan Easterling,... (Conroe Courier, TX)
Love Quotes from Great Writers Feb 14, 2008
-William Blake (1757-1827). "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways...". (Suite101.com)
The latest thing in software: No one's buying it Feb 9, 2008
For his English class last semester, he wrote a term paper about William Blake using Google's free word processing software, even though Microsoft Office had come loaded on his personal computer. The advantage of the Google program, he said, was that it allowed him to keep his information on Google's servers so that it was accessible at any computer, whether he was working at his fraternity, a coffee shop, a campus computer bank or the library. (News & Observer)
Our Fragile Cultural Fabric Feb 7, 2008
My students are, to what I hope is their delight, discovering that William Blake and William Wordsworth have as much to say to us today as they did to their contemporaries 200 years ago simply because they speak to us as human beings. I am hopeful that our schools and colleges will attempt to reverse their present disastrous trend and begin the laborious task of helping to establish common ground for all Americans. (Thomaston Times, GA)
Exam board takes cue from Richard and Judy Feb 6, 2008
Book club should inspire choice of A-level set texts Change aimed at raising enthusiasm in classrooms. Polly Curtis, education editorWednesday February 6, 2008. (Guardian Unlimited)
SUNDANCE:Patti Smith Feb 1, 2008
She visits the graves of the poets she reveres: Allen Ginsberg, Percy Shelley, William Blake, William S. Burroughs. Her manner is generally so gentle and meek that her angry, wild behavior onstage offers the impression of a woman with two different personalities. (Variety)
Painter with a wounded soul Jan 28, 2008
Some of his war work reflects the influence of the mystic William Blake. Brittain carried the British poet's Songs of Innocence in his breast pocket during his flying missions. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Garden Poetry and Quotes Jan 24, 2008
" -Japanese saying Almost any garden, if you see it at just the right moment, can be confused with paradise. -Henry Mitchell If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant. -Anne Bradstreet In all things of nature there is something marvelous. -Aristotle Your mind is a garden, your thoughts are the seeds, the harvest can be either flowers or weeds. Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar. -William Wordsworth To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a heaven in a Wild... (Suite101.com)
Candidates work the strip for voter jackpot Jan 20, 2008
The estimated 80,000 Jews in Nevada - for whom Saturday is the Sabbath - "will have to choose between religious services and going to the caucuses," said spokesman William Blake. "That's a choice in a county that values faith and freedom.". (San Francisco Chronicle)
Review: '60s icons of Lazar's 'Sway' embody the energy of the era Jan 13, 2008
Energy is eternal delight," wrote William Blake in "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. " This declaration serves as an epigraph to "Sway," Zachary Lazar's compelling second novel. Plunging his readers into '60s counterculture, Lazar merges episodes from the lives of the Rolling Stones, the Manson family and experimental filmmaker Kenneth Anger. But the novel's central character is that era's strange energy. Lazar's real-life figures are emblematic of a fascinating cultural shift: Something was... (San Francisco Chronicle)
Bold reformers are mere performers Jan 5, 2008
Reformers have appeared at every juncture in history but truly came into their own in the late 18th century, with people such as William Wilberforce, the evangelical Christian who led the fight against slavery; Mary Wollstonecraft, the pioneering suffragette; Thomas Paine who proclaimed the "Rights of Man"; and William Blake, whose poem Jerusalem prophesied the dark side of the emerging industrial capitalism. In their wake - and this list barely skims the surface - came the Chartists and their... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Released at last Jan 5, 2008
Granted, the book (all three and a half kilos of it) couldn't be more arty if it was hand-crafted by William Blake and annotated by John Berger. But there's no escaping the sense that the enchanted childhoods of Wonderland, Neverland and Oz are undermined when Alice the elderly dyke says "Dorothy, dear, perhaps you might tell Wendy and I more about your farmyard fucking while we amuse ourselves?" Whatever the legal technicalities, it would be wise not to underestimate the offence that some... (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Zirin: Taking Back Sports in '08 Jan 3, 2008
William Blake may have said "the road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom," but this lost highway of excess has led to a crisis of overproduction: too much scandal, too much chatter, too much drama masquerading as sports. . (Zmag.org)
Enough with the scandals: my resolutions for sports is an end to the bad drama. Jan 1, 2008
William Blake may have said "the road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom," but this lost highway of excess has led to a crisis of overproduction: too much scandal, too much chatter, too much drama masquerading as sports. The Sports World needs to collectively resolve to see 2008 as a time to slowly mend fences with a fan base feeling the pain. (SportsIllustrated.CNN -- More)
Spiritual theme lights the way Jan 1, 2008
It should be clear from this summary that Pullman's work is very much in the Protestant romantic tradition of John Milton in Paradise Lost and of that extraordinary poet and prophet William Blake. It should also be clear that just as Blake said that Milton was of the devil's party without knowing it, so the very richness of Pullman's symbolic imagination puts him in a tradition that includes Tolkien and Lewis, whether he likes it or not. (The Australian)
All together now: 'Once in Royal ...' Dec 23, 2007
Toby Spence, opera singer The Lamb Music by John Tavener, 1982 words by William Blake. Little Lamb, who made thee. (Guardian Unlimited)
Book club: borrowing from Paradise Lost Dec 22, 2007
It might have been William Blake who gave Pullman the nerve rebelliously to rewrite the myth of the Fall, but the substance and delights of that myth come from Milton. Milton would be appalled at some of the uses to which his great poetic story is put. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Do the laws of God trump those of man? Dec 16, 2007
Antinomians can be nothing more than charming nuisances, like William Blake, whose poetry was a long manifesto of antinomianism. Or they can be Osama bin Laden. (Globe and Mail -- International)
The pick of the literary crop Dec 15, 2007
Goodall crafts an intriguing tale, which weaves the poetry of William Blake into a plot involving punk as fashion, as music and political moment. The best of British this year was Mark Billingham's Death Message (Little, Brown), in which Detective Inspector Tom Thorne finally came into his own as a character capable of inspiring laughs, affection and sympathy. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Andrew Imbrie, 86, composer and influential teacher Dec 15, 2007
In his Requiem, for example, composed in 1984 after the sudden death of his younger son, John, the writing for solo soprano, chorus, and orchestra is energetic, assertive, and often angry, but its most vehement moments illuminate the tension between the traditional Requiem text and the poetry by William Blake, George Herbert, and John Donne that he interspersed between the Latin movements. Other works, such as the Serenade for Flute, Viola and Piano (1952) and the "Dream Sequence" (1986), use... (Boston Globe)
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* Rapid-fire salvation Dec 7, 2007
Pullman was influenced in the writing of this series by the poems of William Blake and Milton's Paradise Lost, from which the title of the series His Dark Materials, is taken. In an interview with Pullman on fan Web site bridgetothestars. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
New Orleans evokes vast void in 'Godot' Dec 6, 2007
But, as is often the case, his political activity was twofold: in the street and in the studio, where as part of a collective called Friends of William Blake he designed a free New York map for protesters, pinpointing convention events, delegates' hotels and public toilets. 1. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Whose dark materials? Dec 2, 2007
It s true that the poems of John Milton and William Blake, not to mention a dose of particle physics, are key elements in Pullman s vision. But he only takes what he needs for the flavor of his story. (Boston Globe)
An everyman's mystic Nov 28, 2007
Detail from William Blake's Nebuchadnezzar, courtesy of Tate Britain ... From penniless obscurity to recognition 250 years after his birth as one of the greatest Britons, how did a mystical outsider like William Blake win a place in our hearts ... William Blake was a bit of a nutter, to employ the vernacular of a recent prime minister. (BBC News -- UK)
The original political vision: sex, art and transformation Nov 28, 2007
Dissent and emancipation were holy for William Blake ... It is not a meaning of the word that Britain's greatest revolutionary poet would have recognised; William Blake, born 250 years ago today, had what George Bush Sr called "the vision thing" in the way other people have headaches or fits of laughter. (Guardian Unlimited)
Text as illustration Nov 17, 2007
Gray takes us back to the renaissance tradition (revived by one of his heroes, William Blake) of opening the reader's route into a text through an allegorical illustration. Ambitious works - the King James Bible, Ben Jonson's writings, Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy - laid out their topics in emblematic form. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
A castle in the air in London Nov 16, 2007
After they had their fourth child, Lucy Musgrave and Zad Rogers realized they had outgrown their four-bedroom, 1,100-square-foot apartment in a central London high-rise. They ended up building a two-story glass cube atop a friend's apartment. (International Herald Tribune)
Let kids be kids again Nov 15, 2007
INDIATIMES NEWS NETWORK. For long the loss of childhood has been the synonym for loss of innocence. (India Times, India)
Scientists see early universe in grains of sand Nov 15, 2007
British poet William Blake once wrote that a world was contained in a grain of sand. Physicists have done one better, finding a surprising link between streams of flowing sand grains and the birth of the universe. (MSNBC -- Environment)
Remembering Blake, cleansing doors Nov 15, 2007
Instead, found in the poem "The Grey Monk," the quotation is from Englishman William Blake, who died 180 years ago. Nov. 28 marks the celebrated poet's 250th birthday, and a number of creative individuals are joining together to commemorate his life through a series of events for the community. (Daily Iowan, IA)
Donors help National Gallery buy third Mueck sculpture Nov 15, 2007
Eight recently discovered watercolours by British Romantic poet and artist William Blake are being shown publicly for the first time by Tate Britain in London. Steven Spielberg will add the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's Cecil B. DeMille Award to his collection of lifetime achievement honours. (CBC Montreal)
Anger & Resistance Nov 13, 2007
SACRED SPACE: Anger & Resistance-Editorial-Opinion-The Times of India. SACRED SPACE: Anger & Resistance13 Nov 2007, 0024 hrs IST. (India Times, India)
Alberta is 6-0 at mixed curling nationals Nov 13, 2007
Eight recently discovered watercolours by British Romantic poet and artist William Blake are being shown publicly for the first time by Tate Britain in London. Canada's largest software company, Cognos Inc., said Monday it has agreed to a $5-billion US friendly takeover by IBM.. (CBC News)
Landscape of tumult Nov 10, 2007
"All of which contributes to a changing rape of the landscape. And so you get the neo-romantic tradition that looks back to Samuel Palmer and William Blake as a nostalgic reverie for the bucolic wonders of the British landscape. On one side is a lament for a type of landscape that is passing; on the other is a celebration for pockets of beauty that have been saved from destruction.". The neo-romantics here represented by John Piper, Keith Vaughan and John Minton look more at the threat imposed... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Christopher Hitchens on Thomas Paine's 'Rights Of Man' Nov 10, 2007
Apparently warned by William Blake that the English government was about to arrest him for sedition, Paine fled to France, where he was elected to the revolutionary legislature. Today in Culture. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
More of this story Oct 30, 2007
Just six short years ago Driscoll, reflecting on the time-honored possession, said he had become very attached to the clock and was "constantly discovering new facets of its personality."When the clock misbehaves, like striking erratically in the deep of the night, I get the calls from irate citizens," he said. Driscoll, who also long served on the board of the Westerly Public Library and as head of the Watch Hill Dire District s Parks Commission, among other community service roles, passed away... (Westerly Sun, RI)
The bell tolls for Westerly Oct 30, 2007
The bell is a product of William Blake & Co. of Boston and weighs about 1500 pounds. At the time it was installed in 1882 it was the heaviest bell in the area, Algiere noted. (Westerly Sun, RI)
Willilam Blakes A Poison Tree Oct 27, 2007
William Blake's "A Poison Tree" makes a didactic but unworkable statement about the efficacy of talking out one's difficulties with enemies. From his Songs of Experience, William Blake s consists of four quatrains, each with the rime-scheme, AABB. As with most of Blake s , A Poison Tree has its charm, despite its problematic use of metaphor. (Suite101.com)
