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☆ Opinion | Have a Foreign Language Love Affair This Summer
  + stars: | 2024-07-21 | by ( Mark Vanhoenacker | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
By early afternoon I was walking under the turning foliage of Rikugien, one of my favorite gardens, where I paused by a wooden sign at the edge of a stream. But with this magic at our fingertips, is the study of foreign languages now pointless? In fact, foreign languages are more rewarding than ever, in part because technology has made them easier than ever to learn. Growing up in rural Western Massachusetts, foreign languages were inseparable from the wonder I associated with globes and maps, and with the graceful airliners I dreamed of someday flying to distant places. The language I really fell for, though, is Japanese, which I first studied during a summer homestay in Kanazawa.
Persons: — Organizations: Airport, Boeing, Haneda Locations: Tokyo, Western Massachusetts, Belgian, Kanazawa
☆ Following a River Through the Heart of the Berkshires
  + stars: | 2024-06-26 | by ( Mark Vanhoenacker | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
For much of my childhood in the Berkshires region of western Massachusetts, I didn’t give a hoot about the Housatonic River. Notions of Edenic riverbanks came from my mom reading “The Wind in the Willows” out loud after dinner — not from encounters with the actual river that flowed 330 yards from our front door. An arched bridge over it, which I crossed on my walk to high school, marked the transition from home to the stresses of my teenage years. I learned, too, that reaches of the river acclaimed by Melville, Ives and Longfellow were laden with PCBs, an industrial pollutant. Tourists, taking their cue from locals, have only rarely ventured down to the Housatonic’s banks.
Persons: Melville, Ives, Longfellow Locations: Massachusetts, Housatonic
☆ Frederick Seidel’s New Book Includes an Ode to Nick Cave
  + stars: | 2024-06-20 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +2 min
What’s the most interesting thing you learned from a book recently? Not recently, but when I began writing poetry the two poets who taught and influenced me the most were Ezra Pound and Robert Lowell. Right now: Yukio Mishima’s book “Patriotism,” a silly piece of work; “The Collected Poems of Delmore Schwartz”; the essays of Frank Kermode. Have you ever gotten in trouble for reading a book? I remember very much enjoying Maurice Girodias’s banned books in Paris that included Henry Miller and other distinguished authors.
Persons: Ezra Pound, Robert Lowell, Pound, Lowell, Yukio Mishima’s, Delmore Schwartz, Frank Kermode, Jean Rhys, Joseph Roth’s, Lois Lenski, Alex Ross, Louis Menand’s “, “, Mark Vanhoenacker —, I’ve, Maurice Girodias’s, Henry Miller, Girodias Organizations: Ducati Locations: Bologna, Paris
☆ A Journey Across London on the Elizabeth Line
  + stars: | 2023-05-30 | by ( Mark Vanhoenacker | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Head next to Southall Library, home to a noted collection of Martin Ware pottery. Martin Ware is associated with the Arts and Crafts movement, which arose in the late 19th century in opposition to the industrialization of decorative arts. The Southall studio, founded by the Martin brothers in a former soap factory in 1877, remained in operation through the early 20th century. She guided me first to the former Palace Cinema, constructed in a Chinese style and opened in 1929. The cinema became an essential cultural space for London’s growing South Asian population.
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