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...Alfred, Lord Tennyson...
...Tennyson's 19th century vision, described in his poem Locksley Hall, could become 20th century reality if an international group of space buffs has its way. In the U.S. and Canada, in Europe and Asia, teams of scientists and designers are busily completing plans for innovative craft that will travel through space propelled solely by sunlight reflecting off their giant sails. At a meeting this fall of the International Astronautical Federation in Dresden, Germany, at least three of the ships will be picked to compete in a fantastic voyage: an unmanned sailing race to Mars...
Cymbeline's early claim to fame was that the poet Tennyson had apparently died with a copy of the play open on his lap. After seeing it produced at the Huntington Theatre, the inevitable reaction is: "Who can blame...
...workers. Vic charges that Robyn's scholarly concerns have no place on society's balance sheet and that the university's elitism violates her own populist ideals. Yet he soon starts turning up on campus, helping Robyn's faculty committee reorganize a syllabus and shyly thumbing a volume of Tennyson in one of her tutorials...
...could be wrong. Maybe Ali's quote really is more original than Tennyson's "And from his ashes be made/The violet of his native land," which has two cross-references. Or maybe I'm right, and the editors didn't feel like selling a separate appendix listing all the other people who claimed greatness...