Search

Search results

Displaying 61 - 70

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…

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…

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…