You want pesticides with that? Nov 12, 2009
I know, the term was actually coined by neither Mies van der Rohe nor Bucky Fuller, although both leaned heavily upon it, but by Robert Browning, ventriloquising the Renaissance painter Andrea del Sarto in his rather turgid 1855 poem of that name. But what's interesting, and why less is more became the motto of the 20th century, is the way it puts a strong moral undertow beneath an essentially aesthetic wave. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Rapper with a heart of a poet slams stereotypes Nov 10, 2009
The Sydney Morning Herald: national, world, business, entertainment, sport and technology news from Australia's leading newspaper. November 10, 2009 - 12:00AM. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Living Treasures Aug 9, 2009
David s motto is a quote from Robert Browning: A man s reach should exceed his grasp. Join the celebration on Aug. 15 at the Hilton Kaua i Beach Resort s Jasmine Ballroom. (Lihue Garden Island, HA)
Isle marks two centuries since poet Lord Tennyson's birth Aug 6, 2009
He also played host to many of the country's leading politicians and leading cultural figures of the time, such as Benjamin Disraeli and William Gladstone, scientist Charles Darwin, the writers Charles Dickens and Lewis Carroll and poet Robert Browning. The toposcope will be unveiled on an existing granite cairn at 1030 BST.. (BBC News -- UK)
Sierra Vista Symphony Orchestra: Following the Pied Piper of our Ramblin town Jun 26, 2009
The Sierra Vista Symphony Orchestra s Maestro Roger Bayes is not the rogue of Robert Browning s poem concerning the fabled ratcatcher of Hamelin in Germany, who also lured the town s kids away from their families, but a piper nevertheless. Bayes is determined to lead whole families into the realm of wondrous orchestral music in a season meant to celebrate the world s wealth of musicality. (Sierra Vista Herald, AZ)
Ellen Ahlgren, 90; launched charity to comfort ill babies May 18, 2009
She wept and told him she was thinking about the words of poet Robert Browning to his wife: "I could not love thee dear so well, had I not loved honor more.". "We just hugged each other for a long time. What would come next? We just didn't know, but we did know that wherever we were, that we'd always be together," Mrs. Ahlgren wrote. (Boston Globe)
Ask Dog Lady: Keep dogs away from TV if they get barking mad May 8, 2009
When Barrett eloped to Italy with true love and fellow poet Robert Browning, history does not record her toting Flush in a bag, although the dog took up residence with the happy couple. Dear Dog Lady. (Cambridge Chronicle, MA)
The Long Goodbye May 7, 2009
I am reminded of Emily Dickinson, who was stunned to learn that the newly widowed Robert Browning had written a poem, "till." As she put it, "I remembered that I myself, in my smaller way, sang off charnel steps." (A charnel-house was a slaughterhouse. . (Slate)
‘A Life Well Lived’ scores for Hospice caring May 2, 2009
And the sickly but talented Mrs. Robert Browning, in tribute to her poet husband: He saw so much more than a frail, sick woman. He lifted me on the wings of his love. (Brenham Banner, TX)
Paradox Was His Doxy Mar 24, 2009
While affording a great deal more biographical fact than Chesterton vouchsafed in his wonderfully imaginative books on (among others) St. Francis of Assisi, St. Thomas Aquinas, Robert Browning, and Charles Dickens, Oddie also is essentially concerned with ideas. For those seeking a more conventional, though no less reverential, study of Chesterton s life as a whole, there remains Maisie Ward s biography, published in 1944. (The American Conservative)
John Suchet: 'My Bonnie is gone: it's as if she has died' Feb 17, 2009
He says that from the day they got together, two busy working people, they shared the poet Robert Browning s belief that the best is yet to be and actually looked forward to old age because we would be together without anything getting in the way of us. Suchet, an inveterate romantic, started to record their long love affair with the pocket Rollei camera he used to carry with him everywhere on journalistic assignments. (Telegraph.co.uk)
Pilgrim Reflections Feb 12, 2009
Her writings caught the interest of a man named Robert Browning, six years her junior. He began writing her; they exchanged 574 letters over the next 20 months. (DeWitt Era-Enterprise, AR)
