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![]() ![]() Heaney ( 1972: 36) captures this beautifully in ‘The Tollund Man’: the fen’s ‘dark juices working / Him to a saint’s kept body’. The slightly glossy, madder-brown hue produced by the peat thus lends such remains a sense of antiquity, even permanence. ![]() Yet the bog has inevitably altered and stained these remains they are described by Low as ‘rolled up in their own leather’ (cited in Anderson 1879: liii) or ‘tanned and dried in a remarkable manner’ (Lukis 1892: ix). They are ‘entire and uncorrupted’ (Leigh 1700: 65), found as ‘in a common posture of sleep’ (de la Pryme 1870: 983), ‘as fresh as if death had occurred the preceding day’ (Gear 1883, cited in Cowie et al. From the earliest antiquarian letters to the poetic evocations of Heaney, the words used to describe bog bodies conjure their remarkable yet unsettling power. ![]() ![]() ![]() "Old Time Religion: A Country Gospel Program By Johnny D" (Alshire Records, 1972) (LP) Some players I recognize - Willie Rainsford on piano, Leo Jackson guitar, Jim Baker playing steel - but many of the pickers are more obscure, possibly from D's own band. D was from "the north country," which I guess maybe means Canada, though this album was recorded in Nashville, although not entirely with the A-list usual suspects. Comments, corrections and suggestions are always welcome.Īrthur D "Rocky Mountain Water" (Tad Records, 1975) (LP) These are the people who are often overlooked in the history books but who contributed their talents, hopes and dreams to the country music world, and the aim of this guide is to keep their memories and their work alive. ![]() Many of these musicians toured nationally or regionally while others were strictly hometown folks. They included longhaired country-rockers, red-dirt outlaws, Nashville hopefuls and earnest amateurs, as well as the more country-oriented artists in the bluegrass and southern gospel fields. ![]() LOCALS ONLY: This is a guide to independent and off-the-radar country musicians from the 1960s, 1970s and early 'Eighties, including hometown performers working in regional oprys, jamborees, dude ranches, casinos, pizza parlors and lounges. 1970's "Hippiebilly" Country Albums, Letter "D" - Joe Sixpack's Guide To Hick Music ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But the stories of its characters did not end there. The three Star Wars films form a spectacular saga of bold imagination and high adventure. Today Star Wars and its sequels, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, are acknowledged as the most popular series in movie history, and rank among the top ten films of all time. Its epic story, about a young man named Luke Skywalker, whose destiny was to save the galaxy from conquest, caught the imaginations of millions and broke all box-office records. In spring 1977 a film called Star Wars was released-and a cultural phenomenon was born. Picking up where the movie trilogy left off, Heir to the Empire reveals the tumultuous events that take place after the most popular series in motion-picture history-masterfully told by Hugo Award–winning author Timothy Zahn. Here is the science fiction publishing event of the year: the exciting continuation of the legendary Star Wars saga. ![]() ![]() Considered the single most influential work of post-WWII United States poetry, the City Lights edition of HOWL has remained in print for more than 60 years, with well over 1,000,000 copies in print.Ī strident critique of middle-class complacency, consumerism, and capitalist militarism, HOWL also celebrates the pleasures and freedoms of the physical world, including a tribute to homosexual love. HOWL & Other Poems, the prophetic book that launched the Beat Generation, was published by Lawrence Ferlinghetti at City Lights Books in 1956. ![]() The landmark, original publication of Allen Ginsberg’s HOWL & Other Poems ! ![]() The prophetic poem that launched a generation when it was first published in 1965 is here presented in a commemorative hardcover edition! ![]() ![]() ![]() Exercise kindness toward their feelings, their bodies, and themselves Find satisfaction in their food choices Fight against diet culture and reject diet mentality forever Follow the ten principles of Intuitive Eating to achieve a new and trusting relationship with food With this updated edition of the classic bestseller, Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch teach readers how to: Today, their message is more relevant and pressing than ever. The authors, both prominent health professionals in the field of nutrition and eating disorders, urge readers to embrace the goal of developing body positivity and reconnecting with one's internal wisdom about eating-to unlearn everything they were taught about calorie-counting and other aspects of diet culture and to learn about the harm of weight stigma. When it was first published, Intuitive Eating was revolutionary in its anti-dieting approach. The go-to resource-now fully revised and updated-for building a healthy body image and making peace with food, once and for all. Free yourself from chronic dieting forever. ![]() ![]() ![]() She also finds herself increasingly drawn to Mohan, an Indian man she meets while on assignment. ![]() While Meena’s fate hangs in the balance, Smita tries in every way she can to right the scales. As she follows the case of Meena-a Hindu woman attacked by members of her own village and her own family for marrying a Muslim man-Smita comes face to face with a society where tradition carries more weight than one’s own heart, and a story that threatens to unearth the painful secrets of Smita’s own past. Indian American journalist Smita has returned to India to cover a story, but reluctantly: long ago she and her family left the country with no intention of ever coming back. In this riveting and immersive novel, bestselling author Thrity Umrigar tells the story of two couples and the sometimes dangerous and heartbreaking challenges of love across a cultural divide. Honor THE NEW REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK FOR JANUARY! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I would include Balzac in this totalising current - and it was perhaps him who invented it, with his La Comédie humaine - as well as Zola, perhaps Proust, and Martin du Gard. Then there is the current that I would call the tendency of great totalisations: the novel has the objective of capturing the spirit and the uniformity of an era, of constructing a sort of vast universe in which the spirit of the time takes hold, like in an orchestra. Here, the novel is the narrative, the capturing of the real, in a rapid, narrative and stylised prose. There is what we could call the official lineage, which the academy presents as the history of the French novel, proceeding by way of Stendhal and Flaubert. There are three kinds of conception of the novelistic. This essay was first published in Ballast. ![]() ![]() ![]() In January 2021, George launched a campaign requesting the UK Government prioritise mental health amongst children and adolescents, especially in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. In July 2020, George's youngest brother Llŷr died by suicide. In 2019, George launched his podcast The Waiting Room with Dr Alex in which he interviews other healthcare professionals about topical health and wellbeing issues. Following the show, he returned to working part-time at Lewisham whilst also making regular media appearances speaking about mental health on ITV morning shows including Good Morning Britain, Lorraine and Loose Women. In 2018, George appeared in the fourth series of the ITV2 reality dating series Love Island. In 2020, George announced that he would switch to train to become a general practitioner. He went on to work in Emergency Medicine at University Hospital Lewisham in London. ![]() George studied medicine at the Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry and graduated in 2015. George grew up in Nantgaredig, a village near Carmarthen, Wales. Ale| xander David Lloyd George is a Welsh physician and television personality who serves as the UK Youth Mental Health Ambassador within the Department for Education. ![]() ![]() His predecessor, Khrushchev proclaimed, had constructed an almost invincible cult of personality which he used to destroy his rivals and send legions of innocent communists to their deaths. Why the world's most difficult novel is so rewarding The 'dangerous' books too powerful to read When Khrushchev returned to the stage shortly after midnight, he did something nobody in Russia could have imagined witnessing for the previous three decades. Nobody from the press or from outside the Soviet Union would be allowed to attend. There was going to be a "closed session" later that evening. As the conference drew to an end, a rumour began to circulate through the convention hall. One instance came in 1956 when Nikita Khrushchev was presiding over his first Party Congress as leader of the USSR. Liberties have come and gone while false dawns tease the horizon. ![]() ![]() ![]() Freedom of expression has had an elastic history in Russia. In recent months, protesters in Russia have been arrested for holding up blank signs, giving away copies of Nineteen Eighty Four and for describing a conflict that has already killed tens of thousands of Russian soldiers as "a war". ![]() |