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...last great academic don of Harvard wears no black robes and confines himself to no ivory tower. Seamus Heaney is a man of letters but not airs; he has the easy intellectualism of a scholarly master, yet retains an unassuming practicality that is surprisingly human...
...that boyhood hunger for discovery would help shape 13 novels, six books of children's fiction and 10 nonfiction works of history, biography, criticism and reportage. Add his mountain of articles, television scripts and poems, plus the 400 books by other poets (including Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney) that he produced at his small publishing house, Sceptre Press, and Booth ranks as a giant of modern English letters. So why haven't more people heard...
...writer. But that boyhood hunger for discovery would help shape 13 novels, six books of children's fiction and 10 nonfiction works of history, biography, criticism and reportage. Add his mountain of articles, television scripts and poems, plus the 400 books by other poets (Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney) that he produced at his small publishing house Sceptre Press, and Booth must rank as a giant of modern English letters. So why haven't more people heard of him? Many kids will appreciate his Music on the Bamboo Radio, about a boy stranded in Hong Kong...
...Weight Watchers, which is publicly traded, the stock has been sputtering in a strong market since October 2002, and net income has been flat for two years. The firm gets most of its revenue from memberships, which have been flagging, says analyst Kathleen Heaney at the Maxim Group, a New York City brokerage firm. That's temporary, according to Eliot Glazer, vice president of North American marketing for Weight Watchers. "A lot of what is behind low carbs is pseudo science," he says. He reports seeing a flood of disheartened low-carb dieters come to Weight Watchers as "they find...
...Vendler is a monumental figure,” Miller says. “It has been said that she has the power to make or break poets’ careers.” Vendler’s invaluable contributions to the careers of contemporary poets Rita Dove and Seamus Heaney are evidence of this. She acknowledges that it is impossible to compare Yeats, one of the monolithic figures of the last two centuries of western literature, to modern poets...