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Thanksgiving Movies
Our picks for the best holiday fare Once the table's cleared and you can't face even attempting to walk off all those calories you just ingested, why not relax with some Thanksgiving-themed movies?…Bienvenido Santos Biography
Bienvenido Santos novelist, poet, activistBorn: 3/22/1911Birthplace: Manila, Philippines A novelist, short story writer, poet, and activist, Santos's early writings were in the English…1975 Cannes Film Festival
Palme d'OrChronicle of the Burning Years, Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina (Algeria)Special Jury PrizeEvery Man for Himself and God Against All, Werner Herzog (Germany)Best ActorVittorio Gassman,…Walt Whitman: A Persian Lesson
A Persian LessonFor his o'erarching and last lesson the greybeard sufi, In the fresh scent of the morning in the open air, On the slope of a teeming Persian rose-garden, Under an ancient…Christina Rossetti: 'Consider the Lilies of the Field'
'Consider the Lilies of the Field'Flowers preach to us if we will hear:— The rose saith in the dewy morn: I am most fair; Yet all my loveliness is born Upon a thorn. The poppy saith amid the…June Squibb
At the age of 84, actress June Squibb was nominated for an Oscar for her salty-tongued performance in the 2013 film Nebraska. June Squibb is a longtime stage actress whose career took her from the…Christina Rossetti: A Royal Princess
A Royal PrincessI, a princess, king-descended, decked with jewels, gilded, drest, Would rather be a peasant with her baby at her breast, For all I shine so like the sun, and am purple like…Aitareya-Aranyaka: Second Aranyaka, Fourth Adhyâya, First Khanda
Fourth AdhyâyaWith this adhyâya begins the real Upanishad, best known under the name of the Aitareya-upanishad, and often separately edited, commented on, and translated. If treated…Walt Whitman: Song of Myself, Part 36
Part 36Stretch'd and still lies the midnight, Two great hulls motionless on the breast of the darkness, Our vessel riddled and slowly sinking, preparations to pass to the one we have…Poems and Songs of Robert Burns: Dainty Davie
by Robert Burns Come, Let Me Take Thee To My BreastRobert Bruce's March To BannockburnDainty Davie Now rosy May comes in wi' flowers, To deck her gay, green-spreading bowers…