What’s considered to be
the first atlas was first available in an Antwerp printshop on May 20,
1570. It was large, handsome, and
expensive, with the grandiose title of Theatrum Orbis Terrarum,
or in English Theater of the Orb of the World. Produced by the cartographer Abraham Ortelius,
it was one of the most popular books of the era. Ortelius had invented the world. Never before had all cartographic knowledge
been compiled together; never before could a reader imagine the totality of the
Earth so completely. Simon Garfield
writes in On the Map: A Mind-Expanding Exploration of
the Way the World Looks that the Theatrum’s “colors were rich and saturated, the
lettering (in Latin) elaboratively cursive.
The cartouches . . . burst with vivid additional information.” Within the folio were some 53 beautifully
illustrated and colored maps based on the illustrations of 87 cartographers
(who were all duly given credit), including the most up-to-date work of
Gerardus Mercator. The Theatrum depicted
lands from California to Cathay, from the Kara Sea to the Cape of Good
Hope. The book was “a huge and instant
success,” Garfield writes, “despite the fact it was the most expensive book
ever produced.” Though Mercator wouldn’t
appropriate the term until 1595, the Theatrum was the first of a type—an
atlas. posted by Ed Simon http://nautil.us/blog/the-book-that-invented-the-world
Janet Loxley Lewis (1899–1998) was an American novelist and poet. Lewis
was born in Chicago, Illinois, and was a graduate of the University of Chicago,
where she was a member of a literary circle that included Glenway Wescott, Elizabeth Madox
Roberts, and her future husband Yvor Winters.
She was an active member of the University
of Chicago Poetry Club. She
taught at both Stanford University in California, and the University
of California at Berkeley. She
wrote The Wife of
Martin Guerre (1941) which is the tale of one man's
deception and another’s cowardice. Her
first novel was The Invasion: A
Narrative of Events Concerning the Johnston Family of St. Mary's (1932). Other prose works include The Trial
of Soren Qvist (1947), The Ghost of Monsieur Scarron (1959),
and the volume of short fiction, Good-bye, Son, and Other Stories (1946). Lewis was also a poet, and concentrated on
imagery, rhythms, and lyricism to achieve her goal. Among her works
are The Indians in the Woods (1922), and the later
collections Poems, 1924–1944 (1950), and Poems Old and
New, 1918–1978 (1981). She also collaborated with Alva
Henderson, a composer for whom she wrote three libretti and several song
texts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_Lewis See also Guide to the Margaret K. Furbush
collection of Janet Lewis material M2064
Malgorzata Schaefer Department of Special Collections and University
Archives Green Library
specialcollections@stanford.edu http://library.stanford.edu/spc https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c89w0mtg/entire_text/
Grain Salad with Many Flavors is from the
book Open Kitchen by Susan
Spungen. This salad is made with farro,
an ancient and nutritious wheat that has become more and more available over
the last ten years. It’s kind of a
barley on steroids and is an easy grain to handle—simply boil it in salted
water until tender, drain and use just like pasta. In this recipe, Susan combines it with
lentils, cucumbers, raisins, carrots, capers, olives, and lots of fresh
parsley. In truth, any combination of
things you have on hand could be included once you understand the general grain
salad strategy. Dress it simply as Susan
does here and be sure to add any nuts just before serving so they don’t sog
out. https://www.splendidtable.org/recipes/grain-salad-with-many-flavors TIMING TIPS:
Up to 1 day ahead: Cook the farro
and lentils. Up to 6 hours ahead: Prep the rest of the ingredients and assemble
the salad. Refrigerate until 1 hour before serving. serves 6-8
The original sense of “swashbuckler”
was “a swaggering bravo or ruffian; a noisy braggadocio,” The Oxford
English Dictionary says, tracing the first usage to 1560. The Unabridged Merriam-Webster favors the darker definition of
“swashbuckler”: “a boasting violently
active soldier, adventurer, or ruffian”; “a blustering daredevil.” Merrill Perlman https://www.cjr.org/language_corner/swashbuckling-trump-jackson.php
Anagrams of pandemic: damn epic, pan medic, nap medic, dine camp,
nice damp, dim pecan, denim cap, caned imp, imp dance
Donald Justice
(1925–2004) Donald Justice was born in
Miami, Florida. A graduate of the
University of Miami, he attended the universities of North Carolina, Stanford,
and Iowa. His books include New
and Selected Poems (Alfred A. Knopf, 1995); A Donald Justice
Reader (1991); The Sunset Maker (1987), a collection
of poems, stories and a memoir; Selected Poems (1979), for
which he won the Pulitzer Prize; Departures (1973); Night
Light (1967); and The Summer Anniversaries (1959),
which received the Academy's Lamont Poetry Selection. Justice won the Bollingen Prize in
Poetry in 1991, and received grants in poetry from the Guggenheim Foundation,
the Rockefeller Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. From 1997 to 2003, he served as a Chancellor of the Academy of American
Poets. During his life, he held
teaching positions at Syracuse University, the University of California at
Irvine, Princeton University, the University of Virginia, and the University of
Iowa. From 1982 until his retirement in
1992, he taught at the University of Florida, Gainesville. After retiring, he lived in Iowa City with
his wife, Jean Ross, until his death on August 6, 2004. https://poets.org/poet/donald-justice See also https://www.poemhunter.com/donald-justice/
June 1, 2020 As a boy coming of age in the 1930s and ’40s,
Jules Feiffer had his head buried in the funny pages. “My earliest ambition, my earliest dreams,
and my earliest joy was in looking at, particularly, the Sunday
supplements--the color supplements,” says Mr. Feiffer, who in time became a
Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist. “It
was pure and beautiful and innocent in a time when innocence was allowed.” Forging his own path in the field of
cartooning, Mr. Feiffer often gravitated toward dark, biting satire. He maintained a weekly comic strip in The
Village Voice from 1956 to 1997. In 1993, Mr. Feiffer decided to try a genre that would
ultimately reconnect him with his beloved Sunday supplements: children’s literature. HarperCollins has just published “Smart
George,” a sequel to one of Mr. Feiffer’s most enduringly popular books, “Bark,
George,” from 1999. The original book,
which focused on a canine named George who barks only after much prodding, has
sold more than 300,000 copies. Peter Tonguette https://www.csmonitor.com/Books/2020/0601/Jules-Feiffer-a-stubborn-pooch-and-a-children-s-counting-book
Announcing the Winners of
the 2020 Special Edition UI Flash Writing Contest Thank you to the
more than 230 University of Iowa alumni and friends from around the world who
submitted short stories during April's contest.
We asked participants to create a story of 1,000 words or less using one
of two sets of prompts: a story
incorporating a bus driver and a flower, or a story incorporating a police
officer and a kite. Link to
winning stories for grades 3-6, grades 7&8, 9-12, and adult at https://www.foriowa.org/write-now/
Volapük/volapuk/ Volapuk/ volapük An artificial language (constructed language) created in 1879 by Johann Martin
Schleyer. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Volap%C3%BCk
Born
John Hamilton on March 26, 1916, in Montclair, N.J., the son of a New York
newspaper advertising executive, Sterling Hayden went to sea at 20, serving as
first mate aboard a schooner on an around-the-world voyage. “Books
and the sea, I discovered, had more than a little in common: both were distilled of silence and solitude,″
Hayden wrote in his 1963 autobiography, ″Wanderer.″ After a voyage to Tahiti, Hayden went to
Hollywood in 1939 for a film career he vowed to pursue only for money. Between films, he took to the seas again for
the merchant marine. The 6-foot-4,
blue-eyed actor with a deep, husky voice began his movie career with ″Virginia″
and ″Bahama Passage″ in 1941. During
World War II, he served with the Office of Strategic Services, the forerunner
of the CIA, in Italy and Yugoslavia, running night missions under sail behind
the lines to resistance forces. He won a
Silver Star, then came back to Hollywood and made 51 films through 1979. He said he joined the Communist Party for
about six months in 1946 after returning from Yugoslavia, where he fought with
Tito’s partisans, but he quickly realized he was not the normal party member. ″I was the only person to buy a yacht and
join the Communist Party in the same week,″ he said. Hayden’s first major acting role came as Dix
Handley in Huston’s 1950 film- noir classic, ″The Asphalt Jungle.″ The film was a taut tale of crime foiled by
its own greed and was Marilyn Monroe’s first major movie. In 1963 he starred as Gen. Jack D. Ripper in
Stanley’s Kubrick’s ″Dr. Strangelove,″ singlehandedly starting World War III in
order to purify the human race. In 1971,
he played a corrupt police captain in ″The Godfather.″ Other movie roles included ″The Last Command″
(1955); Kubrick’s ″The Killing″ (1956); ″Terror in a Texas Town″ (1958); ″Hard
Contract″ (1969); ″Loving″ (1970); ″The Long Goodbye″ (1973); ″The Last Days of
Man on Earth″ (1973); ″1900″ (1976); ″King of the Gypsies″ (1979); and ″Winter
Kills″ (1979). In 1982, he played John
Brown in the CBS civil-war epic, ″The Blue and the Gray.″ Hayden, an alcoholic who finally quit
drinking in 1982, saying ″I realize I can’t drink any liquor,″ was married
three times and had six children and one stepson. In addition to his autobiography, Hayden wrote
a romantic and poetic novel, ″Voyager″ in 1977, about an 1896 sea journey
around Cape Horn. https://apnews.com/a7ac7e1fc07c7a07e4f162b9f77cb4af
http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com Issue 2283
June 10, 2020
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