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- Odysseus Elytis - Biography
 Jul 1, 4:00am  (1 review) poetry, biographies, greek-literature http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/liter...  Odysseus Elytis
(1911-1996)
Greek poet and winner of the 1979 Nobel Prize for Literature.
Elytis's poems are written in rich language, full of images from history and myths. The lines are long and musical. Inspired by the 'sanctity of the perceiving senses' Elytis celebrated in his early poems the mystery of the Greek light, the sea, and the air. Later themes are grief, suffering, and search for a paradise.
Odysseus Elytis (Odysseas Alepoudhelis) was born in Iráklion, Crete, into a prosperous Cretan family. His parents and ancestors came from the island of Lesbos, home of the ancient Greek poet Sappho. Elytis studied law at Athens University from 1930 to 1935 without taking a degree. He worked periodically in the family's soap manufacturing business.
Inspired by French Surrealism and especially Paul Éluard, Elytis started to write verse. His first poems appeared in 1935 in magazine Ta Nea Grammata, which also published George Seferis's workshe won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1963. Orientations (1940), Elytis's first collection, combined themes of Eros and beauty with the timeless nature of the Aegean world.
 During WW II when Nazis occupied Greece, Elytis joined the resistance movement and served as a second lieutenant in Albania in 1940-41. In 1943 appeared Asma iroiko ke penthimo ghia ton hameno anthipolochago tis Alvanias (Heroic and Elegiac Song for the Lost Second Lieutenant of the Albanian Campaign). In it Elytis's joyful visions of youth and the sun-drenched Aegean nature changed into acknowlegmenet of violence and sudden death. In the poem the youthful hero is killed on the battlefield and miraculously resurrected throught his youth and heroism.
 After the war Elytis wrote critics for the newspaper Kathimerini and worked for the National Broadcasting Institute in Athens in 1945-46 and again 1953-54. In 1948 he moved to Paris, where he studied literature at the Sorbonne. During this time he became acquainted with Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, and other figures of the Parisian art scene.
In 1953 Elytis returned to Greece and took an active role in cultural affairs. He served as member of the Greek critical and prize-awarding Group of the Twelve. He was president and governing-board member of Karolos Koun's Art Theater and of the Greek Ballet. His silence as a poet ended in 1959 with To Axion Esti, reminiscent of Walt Whitman's Song of Myself.
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 The work took him 14 years to write; it was later set music by Mikis Theodorakis. Inspired by the Byzantine liturgy, Elytis combines the biblical story of the creation with modern Greek history. In this work the poet identifies himself in the first section, 'Genesis', with the sun and the entire Aegena world and his race. In the second,'The Passion,' he passes through the barbaric war decade, comparing humankind's suffering with the suffering of Christ. Eventually, like Dante in Paradise, he sees the sun, love, and beauty. "If there is, I think, for each one of us a different, a personal Paradise," Elytis once said, "mine should irreparably be inhabited by trees of words that the wind dresses in silver, like poplars, by men who see the rights of which they have been deprived returning to them, and by birds that even in the midst of the truth of death insist on singing in Greek and on saying, eros, eros, eros!""
 Between 1965 and 1968 Elytis served on the administrative board of the Greek National Theater, and then spent the next two years in Paris after the Greek military coup of 1967. In 1978 he published a long poetic work, Maria Nefeli, which was finished when he returned to Greece. Its alternating monologues are spoken by a girl, Maria Nephele and the Antiphonist, the poet himself. Much of his life, Elytis spent in semiseclusion, focusing only on his art, but after the Nobel Prize followed a period of busy traveling.
Elytis never married; during his last years his companion was the poet Ioulita Iliopoulou. Elytis died of a heart attack on March 18, 1996.
His collected poems appeared posthumously in 1997. Elytis was also a talented painter and produced illustrations of his lyrical world in gouaches and collages.
 This is for my friend Filippi , who is moved by the beauty of "Axion Esti".
- All Michael Jackson Biography History Bio
- Jun 27, 3:03am (1 review) biographies, michael-jackson http://www.allmichaeljackson.com/biograp...
 MICHAEL JACKSON
(1958 -2009)
Michael Jackson died on June 25, 2009, aged 50. The specific cause of death has yet to be determined.
Michael Jackson discovered India in 1996 but some Indians used to go the extra mile to not discover him.An unstated but perceptible cultural ceiling made many "discerning" lovers of music in India view him with affected disinterest.
If Jackson's moonwalk and the corkscrew strand of hair over the forehead smashed language barriers and made countless hot-blooded young Indians "do the break dance" at the drop of a hat in classrooms, canteens and dead-end alleys, another class went into a deep denial mode. To be honest , I was a part of that denial group.
 A group of college alumni recalled how they would make it a point to steer clear of the Jackson hype, at its peak then with his album Thriller. "Brought up on a staple of Jethro Tull, ELP and Styx, and of course Floyd and Zeppelin, we would sneer at folks who seemed to have discovered `western music' via the break-dancing of MJ," said a one-time drummer for the college band.
 Gradually, as the Jackson style struck deep roots and "beat-it" posters in teenager's rooms became the symbol of cool in the eighties, without the angst of Vietnam and a million other revolution that vexed the preceding generation, there seemed to be grudging admiration for some of his songs. But it was never meant to be articulated.
Jackson was an American recording artist, entertainer, and businessman. The seventh child of the Jackson family, he made his début onto the professional music scene at the age of 11 as a member of The Jackson 5 in 1969, and later began a solo career in 1971 while still a member of the group. Referred to as the "King of Pop"in subsequent years, his 1982 album Thriller remains the world's best-selling record of all time[3] and four of his other solo studio albums are among the world's best-selling records: Off the Wall (1979), Bad (1987), Dangerous (1991) and HIStory (1995).
In the early 1980s, he became a dominant figure in popular music and the first African American entertainer to amass a strong crossover following on MTV. The popularity of his music videos airing on MTV, such as "Beat It", "Billie Jean" and "Thriller"--widely credited with transforming the music video from a promotional tool into an art form--helped bring the relatively new channel to fame. Videos such as "Black or White" and "Scream" made Jackson an enduring staple on MTV in the 1990s.
- Jun 27, 3:02am
 Jackson popularized a number of physically complicated dance techniques, such as the robot and the moonwalk. His distinctive musical sound and vocal style influenced many hip hop, pop and contemporary R&B artists.
Jackson donated and raised millions of dollars for beneficial causes through his foundations, charity singles, and support of 39 charities. Other aspects of his personal life, including his often changing appearances and eccentric behavior, generated significant controversy which damaged his public image.
 Though he was accused of child sexual abuse in 1993, the criminal investigation was closed due to lack of evidence and Jackson was not charged. The singer had experienced health concerns since the early 1990s and conflicting reports regarding the state of his finances since the late 1990s. Jackson married twice and fathered three children, all of which caused further controversy. In 2005, Jackson was tried and acquitted of further sexual abuse allegations and several other charges.
One of the few artists to have been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice, his other achievements include multiple Guinness World Records--including one for "Most Successful Entertainer of All Time"--13 Grammy Awards, 13 number one singles in his solo career, and the sale of 750 million records worldwide. Jackson's highly publicized personal life, coupled with his successful career, made him a part of popculture for almost four decades.
Before his death, Jackson had announced a 50-date sell-out This Is It comeback tour, in London, England.
 This is for my friend Cindy,who likes Jackson.
- Farrah Fawcett: Her finest performances - The TV Paige
- Jun 26, 3:46am (2 reviews) biographies http://blogs.suntimes.com/tv/2009/06/far...
  FARRAH FAWCETT
(1947--2009)
Farrah Fawcett, an actress and television star whose good looks and signature flowing hairstyle influenced a generation of women and, beginning with a celebrated pin-up poster, bewitched a generation of men, died on June 25 2009,in California. She was 62.
 Fawcett had been battling intestinal cancer since late 2006, and to an extraordinary degree that fight was played out in public, generating enormous interest worldwide.
Farrah Fawcett was born Ferrah Leni Fawcett in 1947 . Her mother, Pauline Alice (née Evans), was a homemaker, and her father, James William Fawcett, was an oil field contractor. She was of French, English, and Choctaw Native American ancestry.
 A Roman Catholic, Fawcett's early education was at the parish school of the church her family attended, St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church in Corpus Christi. She graduated from W.B. Ray High School in Corpus Christi in 1965. From 1966-1969, Fawcett attended the University of Texas at Austin, living one semester in Jester Center, and became a sister of Delta Delta Delta Sorority. She appeared in a photo of the "Ten Most Beautiful Coeds" from the university, which ran in Cashbox magazine. A Hollywood publicist saw the photo, called Farrah and urged her to move to Los Angeles, which she did in 1969, leaving after her junior year with her parents' permission to "try her luck" in Hollywood.
Fawcett's career was a patchwork of positives and negatives, fine dramatic performances on television and on stage as well as missed opportunities. She first became famous when a poster of her in a red bathing suit, leonine mane flying, sold more than twice as many copies as posters of Marilyn Monroe and Betty Grable combined.
Fawcett won praise for her serious acting later in her career, typically as a victimised woman. But she remained best known for the hit 1970s television show Charlie's Angels, in which she played Jill Munroe, one of three beautiful female private detectives employed by an unseen male boss. Her pin-up fame had led the producers to cast her.
In 1978 Playboy magazine called Fawcett "the first mass visual symbol of post-neurotic fresh-air sexuality".
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- The Parthenon Marbles (or Elgin Marbles) Restoration to Athens, Greece...
- Jun 22, 5:07am (4 reviews) activism, architecture, the-parthenon http://www.parthenonuk.com/
  THE PARTHENON
(447BC - present)
It was built by the famous architects Iktinos and Kallikrates under the general supervision of the sculptor Pheidias .
The Parthenon was the first monument of the Periclean programme for the Acropolis in classical times. It was a wondrous building because of its proportions and its excellent construction, but also because of the brilliant decision to place it at the top of the Sacred Rock. It is preserved with pronaos, cella and opisthonaos (room at the rear of the temple), with a door opening into the opisthonaos. It is of the Doric order, but it has features characteristic of the Ionic order too, such as the sculptured frieze, the Ionic columns that supported the ceiling of the opisthodomos, and others. Within the cella, surrounded by a double-storeyed colonnade, stood the colossal chryselephantine (gold and ivory) statue of the goddess Athena Parthenos, splendid creation of the sculptor Pheidias.
 As an architectural work, the Parthenon was famous for the so-called refinements or curves through which, rather than being static and lifeless, the building resembled a living thing breathing an inner life. Yet above all it was the sculptural decoration of the Parthenon that made it famous, its pediments, metopes and frieze.
 When the Parthenon was built between 447BC and 432BC, three sets of sculptures, the metopes, the frieze and the pediments, were created to adorn it. Of these, the metopes and the frieze were part of the structure of the Parthenon itself. They were not carved first and then put in place, high up on the Parthenon, but were carved on the sides of the Parthenon itself after it had been constructed.
The metopes were individual sculptures in high relief. There were 92 metopes, 32 on each side and 14 at each end and each metope was separated from its neighbours by a simple archtitectural decoration called a triglyph, The metopes were placed around the building, above the outside row of columns and showed various mythical battles. The north side showed scenes from the Trojan war; the south side showed a battle between the Greeks and the Centaurs -- part man, part horse; the east side showed the Olympian gods fighting giants and the west side showed a battle between Greeks and Amazons.
The frieze , 160 metres long, was placed above the inner row of columns, so it was not so prominently displayed. It is one long, continuous sculpture in low relief, showing the procession to the temple at the Panathenaic festival.
- Jun 22, 5:03am
 At either end of the temple, in the large triangular space, the pediment statues in the round were placed. These were designed to fill the space so that those at the highest point of the triangle are enormous. The pediment sculptures have been so badly damaged that we only know what they represent because of the writings of the Greek writer and traveller Pausanias, who was active around 150 AD.
 Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin, the British ambassador to the Ottoman Empire from 1799-1803, had obtained a controversial permission from the Ottoman authorities to remove pieces from the Acropolis. From 1801 to 1812 Elgin's agents removed about half of the surviving sculptures of the Parthenon, as well as architectural members and sculpture from the Propylaea and Erechtheum. The Marbles were transported by sea to Britain. In Britain, Elgin was criticised for his actions, labelled by some as vandalism, and some contemporaries described him as a looter. However, the marbles were purchased by the British Government in 1816 and placed on display in the British Museum, where they stand now on view in the purpose-built Duveen Gallery.
 Not all of the Parthenon Marbles, however, survive down to the present day. There were originally 115 panels in the frieze. Of these, ninety-four still exist, either intact or broken. Thirty six are in Athens, fifty-six are in the British Museum and one is in the Louvre. Of the original ninety-two metopes, thirty-nine are in Athens and fifteen are in London. Seventeen pedimental statues, including a caryatid and a column from the Erechtheion are also in the British Museum. So the Parthenon Marbles are almost equally divided -- half in London and half in Athens.
It is precisely because the surviving sculptures are to be found in two countries 1500 miles apart that the Greek government has requested the return of the Parthenon Marbles from the British Museum so that they can be reunited in one collection, in a museum built at the foot of the Acropolis Hill on which the remains of the Parthenon temple stand.
Greece along with noted citizens of the world ramped up pressure on Britain to return priceless statues from antiquity, taken over 200 years ago, ahead of the grand opening of the new Acropolis Museum on 2oth.of June 2009.
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