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World news from The Times and the Sunday Times – Times Online Childishly inappropriate behaviour has infected Japan’s political elite, as Junichiro Koizumi, the Prime Minister, revealed when he lectured a group of young MPs last year. “Don’t send e-mails on your cell phones or read comic books in parliament while in session,” he told … Continue reading World news from The Times and the Sunday Times – Times Online
I spent the afternoon/evening with Other Patti and our friend Sally, watching several episodes of an absolutely brilliant British sitcom entitled “Black Books.” It follows the exploits of Bernard Black, a bookstore owner, his employee Manny, and Fran, who has the shop next door. I would describe it further, but I would only gum it … Continue reading Black Books
I just passed the bookshelves with Dad’s old collection of Rafael Sabatini‘s works. One book startled me with its title: The Nutballs of Corbal. This worried me, so I looked closer, and the title resolved itself into The Nuptials of Corbal. I feel a little better, though a residuum of worry still lingers.
His poetry emphasized the personal and the lyric: Robert Creeley, one of America’s most celebrated poets and for more than half a century a leading figure in the literary avant-garde, died Wednesday in Odessa, Texas, of complications from lung disease. He was 78.
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