Benito
Amilcare Andrea Mussolini (1883-1945) was an Italian journalist and politician,
who rose to prominence in the first half of the 20th century as the head of the
National Fascist Party as well as the Prime Minister of Italy. Mussolini became the Prime Minister of Italy
in 1922 and continued to rule the country till 1943, during which he turned the
form of governance into a dictatorship. Find quotes by Mussolini,
including "All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing
against the state." and
"We become
strongest, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look for
moral guidance." at https://quotes.thefamouspeople.com/benito-mussolini-817.php
To mince has, since the
1500s, meant to make light of, specifically to use polite language when making
a criticism. Shakespeare used this this
in Henry V: I know no
wayes to mince it in loue, but directly to say, I loue you. and in Antony & Cleopatra: Speake to me home, Mince not the generall
tongue, name Cleopatra as she is call'd in Rome. For the first use in print of 'mince words'
we need to wait until the 19th century. Benjamin Disraeli, who was a novellist
as well as a politician, used it in his 1826 story Vivian Grey: Your Lordship’s heart is very warm in the
cause of a party, which, for I will not mince my words, has betrayed you. https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/to-mince-words.html Copyright © Gary Martin, 2019
At the Virginia Museum of Fine
Arts in Richmond, there's a particularly interactive exhibition involving
famous American realist artist Edward Hopper.
The special exhibit runs through February 23, 2020 and includes, for a
lucky number of guests, an overnight in a Hopper painting. "Western Motel," is the
painting-turned-hotel room at the center of the months-long exhibition titled
"Hopper Hotel Experience." In total, the museum is showing
60 works of art by the artist, who's known for depicting American landscapes
and --and often for capturing a certain loneliness or detachment one feels in a
big, bustling city. Other notable
American artists, including John Singer Sargent, David Hockney and Berenice
Abbott, also have works on display, but the centerpiece is undoubtedly the
three-dimensional living space. Travis Fullerton Read more and see pictures at https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/hopper-room-museum-richmond-virginia/index.html
TEA FOR THREE: Lady Bird, Pat & Betty by Eric
H. Weinberger and Elaine
Bromka Full-length
Play Comedy | Drama Cast size: 1 to 3w. What is it like for a woman when her husband becomes the
president of the United States—and she is suddenly thrust into the spotlight? This witty, sly and deeply moving script
explores the hopes, fears and loves of Lady Bird Johnson, Pat Nixon and Betty
Ford. In three scenes taking place in
the family quarters of the White House just prior to the end of living there as
the wife of a president, each of the women confides alone to the audience. Secrets are spilled about their early years,
their husbands' rise to power, their romances with the men, their unique paths
as wives in the White House, and their feelings about imminent retirement. Each of the three portraits becomes intimate,
by degrees, as the women wrestle with what Pat Nixon called "the hardest
unpaid job in the world." https://www.dramaticpublishing.com/browse/full-length-plays/tea-for-three-lady-bird-pat-betty
TEA FOR THREE (2013)
A book in the Tea Shop Mysteries series by Laura Childs
TEA FOR THREE is "a
small business in the Big Apple." "You buy a tea. We donate to the Canopy Project." Luxury
tea for every day. Hand-blended in small
batches. https://www.facebook.com/teaforthreenyc/
Little Women may have paid the
bills, but Louisa May Alcott was far more passionate about her sensationalist thrillers. Stephanie Sylverne has the story. |
CrimeReads
Recent German theatrical
adaptations of Anna Karenina and Don Quixote make the case
that long
literary works can, in fact, translate to the stage. | The New York
Times
“I am in this room [semicolon] and so is my
mother.” Read Sarah
Broom’s National Book Awards speech. | Vulture
A history of “the
quietest room in San Francisco”—the Poetry Room at City Lights Bookstore. |
SFGate Lit Hub Daily November 22, 2019
PULLMAN, Wash. — November 23, 2019 The apple tree stands alone near the top of a
steep hill, wind whipping through its branches as a perfect sunset paints its
leaves a vibrant gold. It has been there
for more than a century, and there is no hint that the tree or its apples are
anything out of the ordinary. But this
scraggly specimen produces the Arkansas Beauty, a so-called heritage fruit long
believed to be extinct until amateur botanists in the Pacific Northwest tracked
it down three years ago. It’s one of 13
long-lost apple varieties rediscovered by a pair of retirees in the remote
canyons, wind-swept fields and hidden ravines of what was once the Oregon
Territory. E.J. Brandt and David
Benscoter, who together form the nonprofit Lost Apple Project, log countless
hours and hundreds of miles in trucks, on all-terrain vehicles and on foot to
find orchards planted by settlers as they pushed west more than a century
ago. The two are racing against time to
preserve a slice of homesteader history:
The apple trees are old, and many are dying. Others are being ripped out for more wheat
fields or housing developments for a growing population. “To me, this area is a goldmine,” said
Brandt, who has found two lost varieties in the Idaho panhandle. “I don’t want it lost in time. I want to give back to the people so that
they can enjoy what our forefathers did.”
Brandt and Benscoter scour old county fair records, newspaper clippings
and nursery sales ledgers to figure out which varieties existed in the area. Then they hunt them down, matching written
records with old property maps, land deeds and sometimes the memories of the
pioneers’ great-grandchildren. They also
get leads from people who live near old orchards. The task is huge. North America once had 17,000 named varieties
of domesticated apples, but only about 4,000 remain. The Lost Apple Project believes settlers
planted a few hundred varieties in their corner of the Pacific Northwest
alone. The Homestead Act of 1862 gave
160 acres to families who would improve the land and pay a small fee, and these
newcomers planted orchards with enough variety to get them through the long
winter, with apples that ripened from early spring until the first frosts. Then, as now, trees planted for eating apples
were not raised from seeds; cuttings taken from existing trees were grafted
onto a generic root stock and raised to maturity. These cloned trees remove the genetic
variation that often makes “wild” apples inedible—so-called “spitters.” Gillian Flaccus https://www.phillytrib.com/lifestyle/botanists-scour-aging-orchards-for-long-lost-apple-varieties/article_9b451d43-251c-539a-9cb4-bc6b336de4be.html
Today, wild turkeys are
back with a vengeance. Touted as a major
restoration success story, the wild turkey began to be reintroduced to New
England about half a century ago. Suburbs
now stretch in wide swaths of terrain that once supported forests and
associated wildlife. Turkeys have taken
to life in the suburbs with such enthusiasm that they are now a wildlife
management issue for the human residents who must share living space with them.
Emboldened problem turkeys chase and
intimidate women and small children, as well as pets. Whole flocks have gone rogue. Gone are the
turkey’s natural predators—lynxes, cougars and wolves—that had kept America’s
premier game bird’s population in balance. As Thoreau pointed out, nature is no longer perfect.
More than 170,000 wild turkeys now live
in New England and they’re not always at peace with their human neighbors. Bryan Stevens
https://www.heraldcourier.com/community/for-the-birds-success-of-wild-turkey-s-resurgence-leads/article_7a4feecc-7432-5003-bef4-029aa4f4ca93.html Thank you, Muse reader!
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together. - Eugene
Ionesco, playwright (26 Nov 1909-1994)
http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com Issue 2188
November 26, 2019
No comments:
Post a Comment