[Ed. note: this article was originally published on August 14th, 1995.] On a recent afternoon, four women met at an Upper East Side restaurant to discuss what it was like to be an extremely beautiful young woman in New York City. About what it was...

Eighteen massive brass bells rescued from a Moscow monastery nearly 80 years ago during a Soviet-era crackdown on religion and donated to Harvard University are being returned to Russia.A delegation from Harvard on Tuesday signed an agreement with officials from the Russian Orthodox Church to...

Patriarch Alexy II on Tuesday consecrated 18 newly cast brass bells destined for Harvard University in a trade that will see the originals returned to Russia nearly 80 years after they were saved from Josef Stalin's religious purges.The originals have hung for decades in the...

In Eastern Europe during World War II, young Aron Bielski and his three older brothers mounted what was, by most accounts, the biggest armed rescue of Jews by Jews during the Holocaust.The Bielski brothers were acclaimed as heroes, and their exploits were chronicled in books,...

"The Bells" by Edgar Allan Poe is a third-person omniscient poem about four different bells and the sounds they make.

Analyzes The Bells, a poem by gothic writer Edgar Allan Poe. Discusses Poe's use of poetic devices including alliteration, assonance and rhyme. Explores how these devises combine with musical words to capture the reader's imagination.

Edgar Allan Poe's poem "The Bells" brings out the meaning behind the symbols of various bells. He incorporates musical and sound devices as well as auditory and visual imagery to describe different dispositions associated with four different types of bells.