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A Capitol Ideas Veterans Day Observance.
Capitol Ideas with John L. MicekAs we do ... ... every Veterans Day, here's one of the greatest poems ever written about the sacrifices of war and the strongest argument for why it must be avoided whenever possible. Dulce et Decorum Est Bent double,...... -
The Reading Life: Geoff Dyer on 'The Missing of the Somme'
Jacket CopyGeoff Dyer talks to David L. Ulin about form and the novelistic impulse, war and forgetting and his book "The Missing of the Somme."... -
Listen to "Anthem for Doomed Youth" by Wilfred Owen (:48)
Daily PressRead by David Macaulay, news reporter. Play audio: if (AC_FL_RunContent == 0) { alert("This page requires AC_RunActiveContent.js."); } else { AC_FL_RunContent( 'codebase', 'http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=... -
Porn of the Gods
Times Staff WriterI wouldn't presume to advise beautiful and wealthy celebrities how to get along in life, and yet I think someone—some agent or manager or kabbalah rabbi—ought to lay down the law: No video cameras in the bedroom. As of this writing, Britney...Tags: Marilyn Monroe, Tom Sizemore, DVDs and Movies, Joan Crawford, Celebrity Parents
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Regeneration
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday August 14, 1998 "Regeneration" is as bleak as it is thoughtful, a traditional-style Scottish-British-Canadian production with polished dialogue and superlative performances. It should please fans of the well-made British film, but you could...Tags: Plastic Surgeons, Jonny Lee Miller, Jonathan Pryce, Dougray Scott, World War I (1914-1918)
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Classical review, Britten's 'War Requiem' by the CSO and chorus
Tribune music criticBenjamin Britten was a lifelong pacifist. His outrage at the senseless violence and cruelty of war was as profound as his compassion for its victims. All this lies at the heart of his 1962 "War Requiem," a large-scale mass written for the rebuilt...Tags: Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Concerts, Death, Music
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Music review, Ian Bostridge at CSO's Britten Festival at Symphony Center
Tribune music criticSurely it was no accident that Ian Bostridge wrote his Oxford dissertation on witchcraft. The young English tenor is possessed by song, and so, through his bewitching vocalism, are we. His Symphony Center recital debut Tuesday evening, devoted to song...Tags: Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Pears, England, Thomas Hardy, Death
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'Voices in Wartime' and 'Down and Derby'
Times Staff WriterFar from a liberal screed, the documentary "Voices in Wartime" is a thoughtful, provocative exploration of the ways poets have dealt with the experience of battle throughout history. The words of Homer, Emily Dickinson, Wilfred Owen and Langston Hughes as...Tags: Comedy (genre), West Point, Emily Dickinson, Laura Bush, Langston Hughes
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Kalmar touch yields worthy `War Requiem'
Tribune music criticGiven the mess in Iraq and the lingering horrors of Sept. 11, 2001, performances of Benjamin Britten's "War Requiem" are more timely and relevant than ever. One of the choral masterpieces of the last century, the "War Requiem" was composed for the 1962...Tags: Grant Park, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, World War II (1939-1945), Millennium Park, Chicago Children's Choir
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