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July 28Born 0600 BCE - THEOGNIS, Greek poet, born (d: ?); This elegiac poet was an aristocrat who apparently lost his wealth and property during one of the many conflicts between the aristocracy and the lower classes that are characteristic of this period in the Greek states. Embittered by these losses and convinced that all virtue resides in aristocracy, Theognis expressed in a number of poems his hatred for plebeians and his nostalgia for the past when the power of aristocracy was unquestioned. The poems are really moral precepts addressed to his young boyfriend, Cyrnus. Given his reactionary daydreams, if Theognis were reincarnated today, he’d probably be one of those highly moral Republicans who are arrested in Washington (or Minneapolis) restrooms every now and then. 1927 - JOHN ASHBERY is an American poet born on this date. He has won nearly every major American award for poetry and is recognized as one of America's most important, though still controversial, poets. In an article on Elizabeth Bishop in his Selected Prose, he characterizes himself as having been described as "a harebrained, homegrown surrealist whose poetry defies even the rules and logic of Surrealism." "No figure looms so large in American poetry over the past 50 years as John Ashbery", Langdon Hammer, chairman of the English Department at Yale University, wrote in 2008. "[N]o American poet has had a larger, more diverse vocabulary, not Whitman, not Pound". Stephen Burt, a poet and Harvard professor of English has compared Ashbery to T. S. Eliot, the "last figure whom half the English-language poets alive thought a great model, and the other half thought incomprehensible." 1941 - COLIN HIGGINS (d. 1988); American actor, director, producer and screenwriter, died; Higgins was born in Noumea, New Caledonia. His films include: (director): Foul Play (1978), 9 to 5 (1980), The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas (1982); Films (screenwriter): Silver Streak (1976)  1958 - SARAH SCHULMAN, American playwright and author, born in New York. Her books include: People In Trouble, describing the lives of AIDS activists; Empathy, My American History (1994), Rat Bohemia (1995), Shimmer (), Girls, visions and everything: a novel (1999) Truly her output is too much to catalogue here. She is the very definition of prolific. Her most recent work is the acclaimed Ties that Bind: Familial Homophobia and Its Consequences (2009). Schulman is a Professor of English at the City University of New York (CUNY), the College of Staten Island and a Fellow at The New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU. 1975 - IMKE DUPLITZER born. German épée fencer and soldier, born in Karlsrühe. She won silver at the Olympic Games in Athens in 2004. | ||||
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