John Suchet. “He uses solo voices in a symphony for the first time, setting the words of Schiller’s poemAn die Freude. It is the longest and most complex of all his symphonies, which we may regard it as the pinnacle of his achievement, because it is his last symphony...
In ''The Flowers'', the climax occurs when Myop realizes the rope beneath the wild rose is a noose and that the dead man had been hanged. The story... Learn more about this topic: "The Flowers" by Alice Walker | Analysis, Summary, & Theme ...
I was actually surprised by the appropriation thing suggested by his editor; I don’t see why any author shouldn’t write about any kind of character they like, regardless of ethnicity, sexual orientation, age, or what have you. The Lambda Award is also interesting. There’s a genre called...
Where did Wilfred Owen die? What happened to Jorge Luis Borges at age 55? What happened between Archie and Malcolm X? What happened to Morgan in the Arthurian legend? What happened to The Phantom of the Opera in the book? What happened when J.D. Salinger was 45?
I cannot understand why the poets of our day wax indignant at the vulgarity of their age and complain of having come into the world too early or too late. I believe that every man of intellect can create his own beautiful fable of life. —Gabriele d'Annunzio ...
they were seven became angels. Sofia Andreyevna replied that this is what people said. And Vanya replied: "It would be better, Mummy, if I also die before I'm seven. It's my birthday soon and I'd become an angel, too." He did not live to the age of seven, dying of scarlet ...
There is much that science doesn' understan,many mysteries still to be resolved.In a Universe tens of billions of light years across and some ten or fifteen billion years ol,this may be the case forever.We are constantly stumbling on surprises.Yet some New Age and religious writers assert ...
He longed to die, and said to death, "Come when you will, I shall meet you bravely." In fact, Beethoven did something braver than dying. He gathered his courage and went on writing music, though he could not hear what he wrote. He wrote his best music, the music we remember him ...
Careful grooming may take twenty years off a woman's age, but you can't fool a flight of stairs. —Marlene Dietrich 127 We seem to believe it is possible to ward off death by following rules of good grooming. —Don Delillo 70
The '60s is rightly thought of by many as being the Golden Age of modern music, yet there's a strong case for that accolade being applied to the decade that followed it. In terms of the collective musical community working at its peak, little compares to an era that saw the emergence ...