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1 Community Corner Tinley Park social services agency will make sure toys, pajamas get to hundreds of south suburban children and teens for Christmas. Lauren Traut , Patch Staff Posted | Updated Reply TWC staffer Lena Dunn sorting some of the dolls that were donated to Together We Cope for Santa's Workshop, the agency's annual children's Christmas program. Toy donations roll in as staff prepares gift bags for hundreds of area children in need. TWC gives each child two toys, pajamas, and winter scarves/hats. TINLEY PARK, IL — Its home might be closed for the rest of the year following a fire last month, but the demands for Together We Cope's services are still great, and its staff have a long to-do list for the holiday season. The Tinley Park-based social services agency has relocated temporarily, and turned to its network of helping hands, to be able to carry out some of its work for … [Read more...] about Together We Cope ‘Elves’ Find Way Forward After Fire

0 This post was contributed by a community member. The views expressed here are the author's own. Kids & Family Ambitious student & parents campaign aims to reduce incidence of underage drinking Cindy Kurman , Local Business Posted Reply “Know the NO” is the theme of an ambitious year-long campaign aimed at students and parents in the Tinley Park community to reduce the incidence of underage drinking. The campaign, which launched in October, has been created by Leaders Opposed to Underage Drinking (L.O.U.D.), a collaboration of community and educational leaders in these communities south of Chicago. L.O.U.D. is the brainchild of Bremen Youth Services, a social services agency that serves young people and families in the Bremen Township area. The theme emphasizes that saying “no” to alcohol is the norm in these communities, not the exception. The campaign is aimed at … [Read more...] about Tinley Park Says It LOUDly and Proudly: “Know the NO”

M. H. Abrams, who transformed the study of Romanticism with the critical histories “The Mirror and the Lamp” and “Natural Supernaturalism,” and who edited the first seven editions of “The Norton Anthology of English Literature,” a virtual Bible in literature survey courses, died on Tuesday in Ithaca, N.Y. He was 102. Cornell University, where he taught for nearly 40 years, announced his death on Wednesday. On its publication in 1953, “The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition” was greeted as an instant classic. With fluid ease, Professor Abrams distilled the arguments of philosophers and critics from ancient Greece onward as he delineated a radical shift in aesthetics in the early 19th century, set in motion by poets like Wordsworth and Coleridge. The change was expressed by several ruling images, or “constitutive metaphors,” as Professor Abrams called them, chiefly the mirror and the lamp. For neoclassical writers like Alexander Pope and Samuel Johnson, … [Read more...] about M.H. Abrams, 102, Dies; Shaped Romantic Criticism and Literary ‘Bible’

John Hollander , a virtuosic poet who breathed new life into traditional verse forms and whose later work achieved a visionary, mythic sweep, died on Saturday in Branford, Conn. He was 83. The cause was pulmonary congestion, his daughter Elizabeth Hollander said. As a young poet, Mr. Hollander fell under the influence of W. H. Auden, whose experiments in fusing contemporary subject matter with traditional metric forms he emulated. It was Auden who selected Mr. Hollander’s first collection of poems, “A Crackling of Thorns,” for the Yale Series of Younger Poets, which published it in 1958 with an introduction by Auden. Mr. Hollander’s wit, inventiveness and intellectual range drew comparisons to Ben Jonson and 17th-century Metaphysical poets like John Donne. The poet Richard Howard, in the book “Alone With America: Essays on the Art of Poetry in the United States Since 1950,” praised “a technical prowess probably without equal in American verse today.” Early on, Mr. Hollander … [Read more...] about John Hollander, Poet at Ease With Intellectualism and Wit, Dies at 83

In 1979, the artist Ming Smith arrived at New York’s Museum of Modern Art with a portfolio of her photographs. She had been living in the city for a few years, nurturing her obsession with photography, when she heard that the museum had announced an open call for submissions. As Smith walked into the building, prints in tow, the receptionist thought she was a messenger. A few days later, the department of photography’s then chief curator, John Szarkowski, and assistant curator Susan Kismaric bought two of Smith’s pieces, making her the first Black woman photographer to have her works acquired by the museum. Even before gaining institutional recognition, Smith had faith in her art. “I didn’t care if I fit in,” she said to me in her quiet, Midwestern-inflected voice. “Photography was my sacred space.” It was an overcast day in January, and we were sitting in Smith’s home studio, a compact apartment in a tall residential building in central Harlem, surrounded by her work. … [Read more...] about The Ecstatic, Elusive Art of Ming Smith

ROME — The head of the U.S. Bishops’ Conference (USCCB), Archbishop Timothy Broglio, has publicly corrected President Biden’s misrepresentation of the position of Church leaders on the matter of taxpayer-funded abortion. Last Tuesday, Mr. Biden denied reports that the U.S. bishops are “demanding that federal tax dollars not fund abortion,” adding that neither was Pope Francis doing so. In response, Archbishop Broglio released a statement asserting that the Bishops are united in opposing abortion as a grave evil and that Pope Francis himself has denounced abortion in the strongest possible terms. “As we are taught by Jesus, human life is sacred. God calls us to defend and nurture life from the moment a new human being is conceived,” the archbishop stated. “The Catholic Church has been clear and consistent in this teaching.” “The Catholic bishops of the United States are united in our commitment to life and will continue to work as one body in Christ to make abortion … [Read more...] about U.S. Bishops Chief Counters Biden Claim on Taxpayer-Funded Abortion