The summer of acid rain Reprints Related items American spirituality: Where &ldquo California” bubbled up Dec 19th 2007The Koran is not only the most widely read book in the Islamic world but also the most widely recited ("Koran" means "recitation").
It took the joyous irreverence of Wendy Cope's "Waste Land Limericks" – Iain yelped with laughter when I recited them to him – to give me the brass neck to attempt "A Fertile Sea", my own impertinent response to Eliot's masterwork.
The strict rituals and prayers recited in the Doongerwadi 'bunglis' where the family remains closeted for three days, guarantee the untroubled passage of the soul across the mythical 'chinvat bridge' – and help the living towards a 'closure'closure
The mystic and poet is celebrated for his writings, some of which are still recited each Sunday in Armenian churches.
I was recently round a supper table with an actor who recited a long and tedious exposition of a weekend spent in the company of someone he kept referring to as Baby.
No wonder he fought desperately, for many years, to deny his knowledge that he might be gay.Neither as a child in the 1960s nor as an Economist writer in 1996 did that boy ever expect that he would stand before a public magistrate in Washington, DC and marry the man he loved.At the public celebration of his marriage, in the presence of his husband and family and friends, he recited two vows.
As they began to haul him away, "I recited poetry, performed drama, started a speech".
In 1998 Mr Erdogan, then mayor of Istanbul, was briefly imprisoned and barred from politics for five years after he had recited several verses from a nationalist poem that prosecutors deemed to be a call for sharia rule.
Some recited Hafez, perhaps the country's most celebrated poet, whose tomb lies not far away.In this section Beleaguered but still unbowed A sad old city A growing sense of bloody isolation Toddling to talks about talks Odd but useful allies Still dysfunctional Let them have fuel ReprintsYet business is bad, says an Afghan shopkeeper in Serai Mushir.
Five years ago he was barred by a security court from being an MP and therefore from becoming prime minister, because of a conviction for allegedly seeking to incite religious hatred by a poem he recited in 1997.
Once the surrender had been signed, he recited poems at the Brandenburg Gate.A photograph of a smiling Dolmatovsky (pictured) near the ruined Reichstag, with a bust of Hitler under his arm, is the main image of "1945: Defeat.
