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Grand Ole Opry

(Encyclopedia) Grand Ole Opry, weekly American radio program featuring live country and western music. The nation's oldest…

Ginsburg, Ruth Bader

(Encyclopedia) Ginsburg, Ruth Bader, 1933–2020, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1993–2020), b. Brooklyn, N.Y., as Joan Ruth Bader. A graduate (1954) of Cornell, she attended Harvard Law…

Field, David Dudley

(Encyclopedia) Field, David Dudley, 1805–94, American lawyer and law reformer, b. Haddam, Conn.; brother of Cyrus W. Field and Stephen J. Field. He was graduated from Williams (1825), studied law in…

Boston Symphony Orchestra

(Encyclopedia) Boston Symphony Orchestra, founded in 1881 by Henry Lee Higginson, who was its director and financial backer until 1918. The orchestra performed at the Old Boston Music Hall for nearly…

zoning

(Encyclopedia) zoning, legislative regulations by which a municipal government seeks to control the use of buildings and land within the municipality. It has become, in the United States, a…

Proulx, E. Annie

(Encyclopedia) Proulx, E. Annie (Edna Annie Proulx)Proulx, E. Anniepr&oomacr; [key], 1935–, American writer, b. Norwich, Conn., grad. Univ. of Vermont (B.A., 1969), Sir George Williams (now…

Poems: Divine Image

by WilliamBlakeA SongHoly ThursdayDivine Image To Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love, All pray in their distress, And to these virtues of delight Return their thankfulness. For…

Poems: Night

by WilliamBlakeHoly ThursdaySpringNight The sun descending in the west, The evening star does shine; The birds are silent in their nest, And I must seek for mine. The moon, like a…

Poems: Spring

by WilliamBlakeNightNurse's SongSpring Sound the flute! Now it's mute! Bird's delight, Day and night, Nightingale, In the dale, Lark in sky…