Lecture series 'Blums' with enthralling presentation Oct 15, 2009
Prior to the lecture Professor Robert Miola, Gerard Manley Hopkins Chair in English, gave what Professor Blum would later humorously refer to as a "eulogy," briefly summarizing Blum's years of commitment to his work and experience with the field of philosophy, stating that " Blum is a man who lives the life of the mind with unparalleled clarity and dedication.". After much anticipation and a rousing applause from the audience, Blum took his place at the podium, ready to share his "scat of... (The Loyola Greyhound, MD)
Ah-ah-ah-choo! Orgasms make her nose stuffy Jun 16, 2009
Then, later, it gets unlodged and: "Presto! She gets better. Josephson explained that polyps can be caused by tissue inflammation following infection also perhaps allergies and then remain long after the infection has passed. They arent necessarily precursors to cancer, like colon polyps can be, so dont worry too much, but to find out if you have them, see an otolaryngologist. If they can be removed, you may find you can breathe easier even when you arent all flushed and... (MSNBC -- Health)
* [PAPERBACK: TAIWAN] Taipei-resident poet sweetly celebrates the call of the north May 31, 2009
To write well about one place is implicitly to write about everywhere, and, after all, the call of the north has found many answering voices X Jack London, C.S. Lewis and Tolkien in prose, plus most English nature poets (Gerard Manley Hopkins, for instance, disliked the coarseness of the grass even in France, just across the English Channel). As for his religious experience, often Buddhist in tone, its hard to reconcile this with ripping a pike out of a lake with the aid of ultra-hi-tech... (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Business)
"Eurydice: 1887" Apr 29, 2009
A weekly poem, read by the author. By Avery SlaterPosted Tuesday, April 28, 2009, at 6:52 AM ET. (Slate)
Author Ron Hansen to speak at Commencement Apr 28, 2009
He is currently the Gerard Manley Hopkins professor in the Arts and Humanities department at Santa Clara, where he earned an M.A. in Spirituality ... Mr. Hansen has written numerous books, including Exiles, where he focused on 19th century Jesuit poet Gerard Manley Hopkins, and Mariette in Ecstasy, which earned the fiction prize from the Bay Area Reviewers Association and the Gold Medal for Excellence in Fiction from the Commonwealth Club of California. (The Loyola Greyhound, MD)
The Calm and the Restless Apr 28, 2009
Edward Thomas and Gerard Manley HopkinsDifferent works of art convey feeling in different ways ... Also moving, and quite different in feeling and manner, is the poem now generally called "Carrion Comfort" by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-89) ... Gerard Manley Hopkins. (Slate)
Kylie and Judy left out of gay icon list Mar 28, 2009
The novelist Alan Hollinghurst has chosen two wildly different men: Andy Warhol's sex symbol Joe Dallesandro, who starred as a hustler in Paul Morrissey's trilogy, Flesh, Trash and Heat; and the Victorian poet Gerard Manley Hopkins, a painfully repressed Catholic who wrote some of the century's most homoerotic poems. Elton John chose two straight men - his long-time lyricist Bernie Taupin and one of the greatest cellists, the late Rostropovich. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Silences by Tillie Olsen Feb 8, 2009
She writes, "The very great have known such silences - Thomas Hardy, Melville, Rimbaud, Gerard Manley Hopkins." She relates the problem to the average writer, which helps the writer feel she or he is not alone when suffering from writer's block. Authors like Thomas Hardy experienced long and painful pauses in their writing. (Suite101.com)
