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...strength in numbers that protects everyone else and show themselves to be somehow anti-social. One of these characters is a poet who sips Campari on the steps of the seaside Grand Hotel just outside of town, watching the Nazis make out with the local girls; another an antiquarian who stands in the midst of the snow covered square to inform us that this is the town's largest snowfall "since the ice age," although there have also been large snows in 1694 and 1888, the last one occuring on the 13th of July. He gets hit on the head...
...Haven, Conn., antiquarian bookseller named Laurence Witten purchased the map, which had been bound with a 13th century narrative of a Central Asian voyage, from a European dealer in 1957. Later Witten was given a fragment of a medieval encyclopedia that appeared to be written in the same hand as the narrative. Wormholes for all three documents-map, fragment and narrative-matched perfectly. Convinced of the map's authenticity, Witten in 1959 sold all three, reportedly for nearly $ 1 million, to an anonymous buyer, who in turn donated them to Yale. There, scholars determined that the map had been...
...Library and long over-due. Except for Summer Knowledge, the poems, these are first editions, none of which have ever been reissued. The stories, the verse play Shenandoah, the prose poems and sonnets in Vaudeville for a Princess (a copy of which I passed up in a Washington D.C. antiquarian dealder's shop because it was too expensive), the recent Selected Essays, and Genesis that undiscovered long poem (two hundred pages in all), rival to Notebook, Patterson, and Homage to Mistress Bradstreet; as I studied them, it occured to me that Schwartz is not read, that these limited editions...
...Works Progress Administration. At the same time, that agency was covering the country with highways, bridges, sidewalks, sewers and dams, giving free piano lessons to housewives and eventually providing jobs for 8.5 million Americans who otherwise would have been unemployed. Its activities have suddenly become of considerably more than antiquarian interest. The Nixon Administration has sneered that Democrats pushing public employment programs to relieve current joblessness are only "rediscovering the WPA" although at least one Administration official has suggested that it create something like the WPA itself...
...apartment redone for her cynical young lover. Guess who gets to use the bed? In another skit Caesar is a gamy garment-district mogul who sweeps Channing off the dance floor at Roseland. Since both are in their 70s, desire exceeds potency, and the two compromise on an antiquarian verbal waltz...