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They say that a dog is a man s best friend, but these writers found solace and occasional inspiration in another four-legged companion. Celebrate your own love of cats with these 13 feline-loving scribes.
1. Mark Twain
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Mark Twain the great humorist and man of American letters was also a great cat lover. When his beloved black cat Bambino went missing, Twain took out an advertisement in the
New York American offering a $5 reward to return the missing cat to his house at 21 Fifth Avenue in New York City. It described Bambino as “Large and intensely black; thick, velvety fur; has a faint fringe of white hair across his chest; not easy to find in ordinary light.” The cat, fortunately, was alright and returned home.
Mary Barnard brought Sappho into 20th century, infusing the lusty ancient Greek with ‘cutting clarity’ of Pacific Northwest
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Mary Barnard Sappho.
Sappho, of course, is the ancient Greek lyric poet whose charged words turned her name and homeland into adjectives for forbidden love.
And it was Barnard, a Vancouver, Wash., native and Reed College graduate, who finally gave those words life in the English language, in the process remaking both the work and how it was popularly viewed.
Her “Sappho: A New Translation,” published in 1958, was a “big deal, because it was so beautiful,” Sappho scholar Diane Rayor says. “It brought Sappho to people who never would have read her, in this handy little affordable book. It allowed people to fall in love with Sappho.”
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The saga of the Williams Center for the Arts in Rutherford will continue later this month when officials gather to discuss the sale of the historic theater.
Last fall, Bergen County told the center s board of trustees that it plans to put the historic theater up for auction. The building, which opened in 1922, is home to the long-struggling arts center and the movie theater complex that occupies its basement.
Now the County Commission will hold two public meetings to discuss the sale on March 24 at noon and April 7 at 6 p.m.
The Williams Center s president, Evelyn Spath-Mercado, said she and the board have been involved in every step of the process and have attended the virtual planning board meetings to keep track of what has been happening.
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