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...book of Civil War poems, appeared in 1865, a 22-year-old reviewer named Henry James laced into the good grey poet. "To become adopted as a national poet," wrote young James, "it is not enough to discard everything in particular and to accept everything in general, to amass crudity upon crudity, to discharge the undigested contents of your blotting-book into the lap of the public. You must respect the public which you address; for it has taste, if you have not." To which Whitman, for once laconic, snorted: "Feathers...
...celebrate its Golden Anniversary, Buffalo's Albright Art Gallery plans to amass some new treasures this year. First purchase: the Tamayo opposite...
...these are the exceptions. "Lousy," is James T. Farrell's word for the average writer's economic situation. "Scrawny and having a rank odor," growls Novelist Kenneth Roberts. "Very discouraging," says J. P. Marquand, who adds: "It's harder for a writer to amass a fortune than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven." Writes Critic Malcolm Cowley in his appraisal of The Literary Situation: "Aside from the hard-working authors of textbooks, standard juveniles, mysteries and westerns, I doubt that 200 Americans earned the major portion of their income, year after year...
...their net) before paying a cent of taxes. Such old-time Texas millionaires as Jesse Jones, who owns dozens of Houston's choicest buildings, and Publisher Amon Carter, whose Fort Worth Star-Telegram is Texas' biggest paper (circ. 241,582), were able to amass their first riches in other fields. So was Dallas' Leo Corrigan, who has pyramided his real-estate holdings to an estimated $500 million (latest project: a $5,000,000 resort hotel in Nassau). But by & large, the big Texas fortunes are now founded on oil and the liberal tax provisions that go with...
...decisions is the Corporation's way of reaching them and it is here that the Senior Fellows deserve the most applause. The time they spent, the painstaking way they worked, the care they showed for every relevant fact they could unearth, and the anxiousness they showed to amass the views of faculty members--these show the immense store of fairness and rationality that the Corporation brought to this most vexed issue. Compared to the fury and irrationality which marked the investigation's usual impact, the Corporation's quiet and thorough procedure deserves high tribute...