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...then laid forth their lives, mostly in their own words--but through his own wild periscope of the self-style uptown revel, the reluctant Jew, the recipient of all that his immigrant father had built from scratch long that same seamy side of New York, including what Joseph and Abbott Liebling had tried their best to shield him from. His parents' efforts led to his schizophrenic class attitudes: in his own life averse to the streets (he lived an upperclass life on an upper-middle class budget), at the same time he was fascinated with writing about those who lived...
...Abbott of Theleme, The whole Cardinals' College, or The Pope himself to see in dream Before his Lenten vision gleam, He lies there, the sockdolager...
WHEN ROBERT LOWELL arrived at Harvard as a freshman in the autumn of 1935, he brought a weighty burden with him. Surrounded by reminders of his family's immense wealth and power (his uncle, Abbott Lawrence Lowell, was then president of the University, and construction of Lowell House was underway), and further intimidated by the monolithic literary reputations of the preceding generations of Lowells, the young student found his burning aspirations dampened...
...everyone threw his poems into a basket, and then they held a round-robin to see who could say the most sarcastic things about the other man's work." After two years in Cambridge, Lowell transferred to Kenyon College. His parents, furious that he would not return to Uncle Abbott's school, sent him to a psychiatrist...
REMEMBER Francis the Talking Mule Joins the Army? Remember Abbott and Costello in Buck Privates? Or that lamebrained Martin and Lewis movie with the unforgettable musical number--"The navy gets the gravy/But the army gets the beans/Beans, beans, beans..."? These films, and a hundred like them, showed us that being trained to kill people in a brutally authoritarian institution could be fun, in fact, downright hilarious. Just when it seemed that Vietnam had bombed the service comedy into oblivion, Hollywood has chosen not only to revive the genre but to add an insipidly trendy twist by making the first supposedly...