There are two kinds of intelligence: one acquired,
as a child in school memorizes facts and concepts
from books and from what the teacher says,
collecting information from the traditional sciences
as well as from the new sciences.
With such intelligence you rise in the world.
You get ranked ahead or behind others
in regard to your competence in retaining
information. You stroll with this intelligence
in and out of fields of knowledge, getting always more
marks on your preserving tablets.
There is another kind of tablet, one
already completed and preserved inside you.
A spring overflowing its springbox. A freshness
in the center of the chest. This other intelligence
does not turn yellow or stagnate. It’s fluid,
and it doesn’t move from outside to inside
through conduits of plumbing-learning.
This second knowing is a fountainhead
from within you, moving out.
Full knee-deep lies the winter snow,
And the winter winds are wearily sighing:
Toll ye the church bell sad and slow,
And tread softly and speak low,
For the old year lies a-dying.
Old year you must not die;
You came to us so readily,
You lived with us so steadily,
Old year you shall not die.
He lieth still: he doth not move:
He will not see the dawn of day.
He hath no other life above.
He gave me a friend and a true truelove
And the New-year will take ‘em away.
Old year you must not go;
So long you have been with us,
Such joy as you have seen with us,
Old year, you shall not go.
He froth’d his bumpers to the brim;
A jollier year we shall not see.
But tho’ his eyes are waxing dim,
And tho’ his foes speak ill of him,
He was a friend to me.
Old year, you shall not die;
We did so laugh and cry with you,
I’ve half a mind to die with you,
Old year, if you must die.
He was full of joke and jest,
But all his merry quips are o’er.
To see him die across the waste
His son and heir doth ride post-haste,
But he’ll be dead before.
Every one for his own.
The night is starry and cold, my friend,
And the New-year blithe and bold, my friend,
Comes up to take his own.
How hard he breathes! over the snow
I heard just now the crowing cock.
The shadows flicker to and fro:
The cricket chirps: the light burns low:
‘Tis nearly twelve o’clock.
Shake hands, before you die.
Old year, we’ll dearly rue for you:
What is it we can do for you?
Speak out before you die.
His face is growing sharp and thin.
Alack! our friend is gone,
Close up his eyes: tie up his chin:
Step from the corpse, and let him in
That standeth there alone,
And waiteth at the door.
There’s a new foot on the floor, my friend,
And a new face at the door, my friend,
A new face at the door.
On this day in 1947, the actor Richard Dreyfuss, who will rise to fame in Hollywood in the 1970s with starring roles in such movies as American Graffiti, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and The Goodbye Girl, is born in Brooklyn, New York.
Dreyfuss, who registered as a conscientious objector to the Vietnam War and worked at a hospital instead of joining the military, began his acting career in the 1960s, working in theater and television. His first big movie role was in 1973’s American Graffiti, directed by George Lucas (who four years later would have a massive hit with Star Wars). American Graffiti told the story of two young men (Dreyfuss and Ron Howard) who spend a final night cruising around their California town with their buddies before they are both scheduled to leave for college the next morning. In 1974, Dreyfuss played the title role in The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, about a poor Jewish boy growing up in Montreal who becomes obsessed with owning his own land.
In 1975, Dreyfuss co-starred with Roy Scheider and Robert Shaw in the director Steven Spielberg’s breakthrough film, Jaws, about a killer shark that terrorizes a beach community. Jaws, in which Dreyfuss played the marine biologist Matt Hooper, was the first movie to gross more than $100 million. Dreyfuss went on to star in Spielberg’s next blockbuster, 1977’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind, in which he portrayed a man contacted by aliens. That same year, Dreyfuss starred in the director Herbert Ross’s The Goodbye Girl, which was based on a Neil Simon screenplay about a struggling actor who unexpectedly ends up sharing an apartment with a woman and her young daughter. The Goodbye Girl was nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and Dreyfuss won the Best Actor Oscar.
In the early 1980s, the unconventionally handsome actor’s acting career cooled amidst a drug arrest and several box-office disappointments. However, in 1986 he co-starred with Nick Nolte and Bette Midler in the well-received comedy Down and Out in Beverly Hills and in the director Rob Reiner’s hit Stand by Me. In 1988, he teamed with Danny DeVito in the writer-director Barry Levinson’s Tin Men, about two aluminum-siding salesmen. During the 1990s, Dreyfuss was featured in such movies as Postcards from the Edge (1990), with Meryl Streep and Shirley MacLaine; What About Bob? (1991), with Bill Murray; Another Stakeout (1993), with Emilio Estevez and Rosie O’Donnell; and Mr. Holland’s Opus (1995), which earned him a Best Actor Oscar nomination for his performance as a high school music teacher.
In 2001, Dreyfuss played Alexander Haig, the U.S. secretary of state under President Ronald Reagan, in the TV movie The Day Reagan was Shot. Also that year, he starred as a college professor in the TV series The Education of Max Bickford, which was cancelled in 2002. In 2006, he was part of the ensemble cast of Poseidon, a remake of the 1972 disaster movie The Poseidon Adventure. More recently, in 2008, Dreyfuss played Vice President Dick Cheney in writer-director Oliver Stone’s W., about President George W. Bush.
On this day in 2002, Irish-born actor Richard Harris, whose career spanned six decades and included starring roles in films ranging from "Camelot" to the "Harry Potter" series, dies of cancer at age 72 in London. Harris was known for his acting talent as well as his carousing off-camera. As BBC.com reported after his death, "He was everything a bad-boy Hollywood star should be: a handsome, boozing, brawling, womanizing, jet-setter whose moody magnificence brought glamour to even his weakest movies."
Richard St. John Harris was born on October 1, 1930, in Limerick, Ireland, where his family had a flour-milling business. As a young man, Harris was a talented rugby player, but his athletic career was cut short by a battle with tuberculosis. He went on to study acting in the mid-1950s at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, and afterward found work in various London theater productions. By the late 1950s, he was earning small roles on the big screen. Among his early film credits were supporting parts in "The Guns of Navarone" (1961), featuring Gregory Peck and Anthony Quinn, and "Mutiny on the Bounty" (1962), with Marlon Brando.
Harris shot to international stardom with his performance as a coal miner tuned rugby player in 1963's "This Sporting Life." The role earned him an Academy Award nomination for best actor. A long list of acting credits would follow—Harris made more than 70 films over the course of his career—including a 1967 cinematic adaptation of the Broadway musical "Camelot," in which he played King Arthur. In addition to his movie roles, Harris became equally famous for his reputation as a raconteur and hell-raiser. He reportedly suffered nine broken noses during his life and received last rites twice from a priest.
Harris portrayed a hardened Irish farmer in 1990's "The Field," for which he garnered a second Oscar nomination for best actor. He went on to appear in such movies as "The Unforgiven" (1992) directed by Clint Eastwood, "Patriot Games" (1992), "Cry, the Beloved Country" (1995) and "Gladiator" (2000), in which he played Marcus Aurelius to Russell Crowe's Maximus.
In 2001, Harris gained legions of new fans when he played Albus Dumbledore, the wise, white-bearded headmaster of Hogwarts School, in "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone." Harris reprised this role for the second film in the series, "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets," which was released in the U.S. in November 2002, just weeks after his death.
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Veteran disciplemaker LeRoy Eims emphasized the training of laypeople to become laborers in the harvest field. Today his son Randy Eims interprets his father's message to equip a new generation living in a post-Christian world.
In this updated version, LeRoy and Randy define a laborer as one who is equipped to reach the lost and edify the saved. Their words offer a job description for laborers, outline the training needed for laboring, and describe the spiritual tools a laborer needs in Christ’s harvest.
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