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February 23, 2021 MACOMB, IL – With the retirement of Western Illinois University Professor Emeritus of Theatre Jeannie Woods, and the recent dissolution of The Starry Night Repertory Theatre she created, two important donations have been made to the WIU Department of Theatre and Dance and the Performing Arts Society (PAS). Woods has donated her theatre equipment to the PAS, and has established The Starry Night Repertory Theatre Award in Directing, a $300 prize to be presented to a jun...

Illustration: Elisabeth Boehm. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Aunt Galya, my father’s sister, died. She was just over eighty. We hadn’t been close—there was an uneasiness between the families and a history of perceived snubs. My parents had what you might call troubled dealings with Aunt Galya, and we almost never saw her. As a result I had little chance to form my own relationship with her. We met infrequently, we had the odd phone call, but toward the end she unplugged h...

Classical CDs: Elephants, pestilence and lockdown fiddling | reviews, news & interviews Classical CDs: Elephants, pestilence and lockdown fiddling Classical CDs: Elephants, pestilence and lockdown fiddling Six more zingers, including strong British contemporary music and the complete Ravel by Graham RicksonSaturday, 13 February 2021     BBC Symphony Orchestra/Marin Alsop, Sakari Oramo, Andrew Litton, André de Ridder (Avie Records) The musical content is impressive enough, but th...

「人勤一世千川綠，牛奮四蹄萬頃黃。」時序輪轉，歲月更迭，轉眼已是辛丑年，心保與佛光山全體宗委暨全球僧眾祝福大家「花開四季，耕耘心田」：精進勤於耕耘心田，四季常栽智慧之花。 開山之初，創辦人星雲大師啟建「寶橋」跨過深溝水池，是佛光山叢林學院、大悲殿對外的通路。近年來，有感年長的信眾上下階梯不便，大師慈示在大雄寶殿與大悲殿之間建設「新寶...

Eton (Shutterstock) The basic facts about George Orwell’s years at Eton are well known. But we don’t precisely know which Etonian values he retained and what influence the school had on his later life. John le Carré wrote me (on September 27, 1998), “I taught at Eton. It always amused me that Blair-Orwell, who had been to Eton, always took great pains to disown the place.”  Responding to Twentieth Century Authors, Orwell categorically declared: “I was educated at Eton...

by Stephanie SanHamel In 1960, Norman Cousins, former editor of Saturday Review, wrote, “There is every reason for Judaism to lose its reluctance toward Jesus. His own towering spiritual presence is a projection of Judaism, not a repudiation of it.”1 Yet decades later, Jesus still remains an enigma – the Jewish man who claimed to be Messiah, Lord and God, resulting in billions of people following him and calling themselves Christians. So, what was Jesus’ religion? The simple answer is: ...

Heartiest congrats to Dr Prakasa Rao Asavadi, who has been conferred with Padma Shri for the year 2021 in the field of Literature & Education (Sl. No. 22 in the Press Note of Government of India, Ministry of Home Affairs). It’s a befitting honour to a really deserving person. He has been my venerable literary friend for five years, though I had known about him much earlier. As his sincere & humble fan, I have been helping hin by nominating him in his as well as my name every year for the hono...

Anna Novakov and T. Novakov like a yellow silken scarf, the thick fog hangs along the quay[1] In the 1880s, London’s frequent and well-documented episodes of fog were a phenomenon unique to England’s most densely populated, diverse, and industrialized urban center. The spectacular nature of the embankment fog, often described by eyewitnesses as changeable and even colorful, caught the imagination of many artists and writers who saw in these atmospheric manifestations a symbol of modernity a...

A universal Gospel of Sanatana Dharma for all who are going towards the highest and best (2) January 27, 2021, 10:28 PM IST Sunil Kumar is currently member, managing committee, Ramakrishna Mission, New Delhi. An engineer and project manager trained at Vickers Armstrong Engineers and Babcox & Wilcox, UK, he is a former general manager of The Projects and Equipment Corporation of India, Ministry of Commerce and Consultant, NIDC, Ministry of Industry. Sunil has been member of a ...

A universal gospel for all who are going towards the highest and best January 26, 2021, 11:47 AM IST Sunil Kumar is currently member, managing committee, Ramakrishna Mission, New Delhi. An engineer and project manager trained at Vickers Armstrong Engineers and Babcox & Wilcox, UK, he is a former general manager of The Projects and Equipment Corporation of India, Ministry of Commerce and Consultant, NIDC, Ministry of Industry. Sunil has been member of a high-power government c...