Ezra Pound (30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972) was an American poet and critic, a major figure in the earlymodernist poetry movement, and aWorld War II collaborator inFascist Italy. His works includeRipostes (1912),Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920), and theepic poemThe Cantos (c. 1917–1962). Pound helped shape the work of contemporaries such asH.D.,Robert Frost,T. S. Eliot,Ernest Hemingway, andJames Joyce. He moved to Italy in 1924, where he embracedBenito Mussolini'sItalian fascism and supportedAdolf Hitler. DuringWorld War II, Pound recorded hundreds ofradio propaganda broadcasts attacking the United States, praisingthe Holocaust in Italy, and urging American soldiers to surrender. In 1945 Pound was captured and ruledmentally unfit to stand trial. While incarcerated for over 12 years at a psychiatric hospital hisThe Pisan Cantos (1948) was awarded theBollingen Prize for Poetry causing enormous controversy. Released, in 1958 he returned, unrepentant, to Italy, where he died. (Full article...)
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There are 21protected areas of the United States designated asnational preserves. They were established by an act ofCongress to protect areas that have resources often associated withnational parks but where certainnatural resource-extractive activities such as hunting and mining may be permitted, provided their natural values are preserved. Eleven national preserves are co-managed with national parks ornational monuments; because hunting is forbidden in those units, preserves provide a similar level of protection from development but allow hunting and in some casesgrazing. National preserves are located in eleven states; Alaska is home to ten of them, including the largest,Noatak National Preserve. Their total area is 24,651,566 acres (99,761 km2), 86% of which is in Alaska. All national preserves exceptTallgrass Prairie permit hunting in accordance with local regulations. (Full list...)
The Cocoanuts is a 1929pre-Codemusicalcomedy film starring theMarx Brothers (Groucho,Harpo,Chico, andZeppo). Produced forParamount Pictures byWalter Wanger, who is not credited, the film also starsMary Eaton,Oscar Shaw,Margaret Dumont andKay Francis. The firstsound film to credit more than one director (Robert Florey andJoseph Santley), it was adapted to the screen byMorrie Ryskind fromthe musical play byGeorge S. Kaufman. Five of the film's tunes were composed byIrving Berlin, including "When My Dreams Come True", sung by Oscar Shaw and Mary Eaton. Principal photography began on February 4, 1929, atParamount’s Astoria studio, and it premiered on May 23, 1929, at theRialto Theatre in New York. Film credit:Robert Florey andJoseph Santley Recently featured: |
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