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If Whitman did not think of culture as an integral part of life but as a top dressing, he insisted that his own art was a totality in itself. In one of the oddest letters ever written by a poet (it is in the third person), he sent to an...
In what reads almost like a Behavior Manual for Modern Poets, Clem drifts from Acapulco to Paris to New York-wenching, wiving, divorcing, insulting his friends and occasionally scribbling. During his final, alcoholic collapse he sits in a Greenwich Village bar playing the literary clown to agents and publishers, sexual...
But there were still many who supported the plan on humanitarian grounds. The committee reported a sudden surge of 10,000 letters (and presumed donations) after an emotional appeal by TV's Jack Paar, who was a onetime ardent admirer of Castro's. Fund-raising drives were under...
On the prowl for a likely vote getter in next December's Senate elections, the Australian Republican Party went to a promising place. Adelaide's Charles Birk's department store, picked out a $25-a-week salesgirl, broad-shouldered, brunette Olympic Swimming Champion Dawn Fraser, 23. Figuring...
For almost a quarter of a century, Designer T. H. (for Terence Harold) Robsjohn-Gibbings successfully designed stark, austere contemporary furniture for a number of top U.S. manufacturers. A decorator, architect, author (GoodBye, Mr. Chippendale), and longtime admirer of the durability of classic Greek forms, Gibbings grew increasingly disenchanted with...