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pastoral literary work in which the shepherd's life is presented in a conventionalized manner. In this convention the purity and simplicity of shepherd life is contrasted with the corruption and artificiality of the court or the city. The pastoral is found in poetry, drama, and fiction, and many... Read more
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William Keepers Maxwell Jr William Keepers Maxwell Jr
William Keepers Maxwell, Jr. 1908-2000, American novelist, short-story writer, and editor, b. Lincoln, Ill. Educated at the Univ. of Illinois and Harvard, he began his career as a teacher, but soon turned to writing. In his fiction the discreet and courtly Maxwell often handled such traditional... Read more
Bryn Terfel Bryn Terfel
BRYN TERFEL Born: Bryn Terfel Jones; Pantglas, North Wales, 9 November 1965 Genre: Classical Best-selling album since 1990: Something Wonderful: Bryn Terfel Sings Rodgers and Hammerstein (1996) Bryn Terfel brought a superstar status to the bass-baritone voice in the 1990s that is usually... Read more
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra , 1547-1616, Spanish novelist, dramatist, and poet, author of Don Quixote de la Mancha, b. Alcalá de Henares. Life Little is known of Cervantes's youth. He went to Italy (1569), where, in the service of a cardinal, he studied Italian literature and philosophy,... Read more
Diego Armando Maradona Diego Armando Maradona
Diego Armando Maradona 1960-, Argentinian soccer star. A strong forward with spectacular abilities, superb dribbling skills, and great personal flair, he began his career as a teenager playing for the Argentinos (1976-80) and Boca juniors (1981). Moving (1982) to Europe, he joined the Barcelona... Read more
I M Pei I M Pei
I. M. Pei (Ieoh Ming Pei) , 1917-, Chinese-American architect, b. Guangzhou, China. Pei emigrated to the United States in 1935 and studied at the Univ. of Pennsylvania, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Harvard, where he taught from 1945 to 1948. That year he joined Webb and Knapp,... Read more
John Ruskin John Ruskin
John Ruskin 1819-1900, English critic and social theorist. During the mid-19th cent. Ruskin was the virtual dictator of artistic opinion in England, but Ruskin's reputation declined after his death, and he has been treated harshly by 20th-century critics. Although it is undeniable that he was an... Read more
Van Cliburn Van Cliburn
Van Cliburn (Harvey Lavan Cliburn) , 1934-, American pianist, b. Shreveport, La. Until 1951, Cliburn studied with his mother, a concert pianist, and became a pupil of Rosina Lhévinne at the Juilliard School of Music. Cliburn won the 1958 International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition in... Read more
Boris Karloff Boris Karloff
Boris Karloff , 1887-1969, Anglo-American actor, b. Dulwich, England; his original name was William Henry Pratt. A distinguished character actor with a superb speaking voice, Karloff was famous for his monster roles in Hollywood horror films, notably Frankenstein (1931). His other movies include ... Read more

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