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In the News (Thu 16 Feb 12)

  
  Poetry and Vietnam
Unfortunately, except for the efforts of American poets John Balaban, Yusef Komunyakka, Kevin Bowen, and Bruce Weigl, most of these poems are not available in translation.
Another professor was Bruce Weigl, whose 1967-1968 Army service in Vietnam sparked a number of collections such as Song of Napalm (1988), in which most of his war poems appear.
The title poem is a haunting testament to his wife as he confesses his inability to forget aspects of the war.
www.english.uiuc.edu /maps/vietnam/poetryandvietnam.htm   (1099 words)

  
 Lviv   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The official language was changed to German and most of the posts in city's administration were taken by Germans and Czechs, yet the City remained an important centre of both Polish and Ukrainian cultures.
In 1784, the Emperor Joseph II reopened the University.
Lectures were held in Latin, German, Polish and (from 1786) also in Ukrainian.
lviv.iqnaut.net   (3220 words)

  
 Arsis Press Compsers
Joseph McLellan of the Washington Post singled out the premiere of her Suite Discovery as a highlight of the year in 1992, calling the work for flute and string quartet "...unpretentious...ingenious and evocative."
She has taught at Fordham University, Manhattan School of Music, the University of Virginia, and George Mason University, and is currently on the faculty at Palm Beach Atlantic College.
Austrian born, Vally Weigl studied musicology at Vienna University with Guido Adler and composition with Karl Weigl whom she later married.
www.arsispress.com /Composers.html   (6508 words)

  
 Chp 11: The Persistence of an Idea, Impressions of Iroquois liberty after the eighteenth century, "Exemplar Of Liberty"
An eighteenth century observer reported: "The women rule the rost [sic], and weres the britches and sometimes will beat thire husbands within an inch of thire life."
Father Joseph Frances Lafitau made a similar statement in a more elegant tone: "It is she who maintains the tribe, the nobility of the blood, the genealogical tree, the order of generations, and the conservation of the families.
Women also were the souls of the Iroquois Grand Council; they were often so influential that the men have been characterized as political representatives of them.
www.ratical.com /many_worlds/6Nations/EoL/chp11.html   (10457 words)

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