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...Married Alive is a tolerable item. But Jule Styne and E. Y. Harburg, who wrote it, should be capable of better. Harburg's lyrics pale beside Jamaica; for the creator of Finian's Rainbow, they are pure embarrassment. Styne's music is enough to make one suspicious of the authorship of Gypsy and Funny Girl...
...takes about 20 pages to realize that Report from Iron Mountain is a skillful hoax. Who wrote it? Likely candidates were canvassed. Richard Goodwin and Economist Kenneth E. Boulding both denied authorship. An even likelier candidate, John Kenneth Galbraith, hedged. Meanwhile, he wrote a tongue-in-cheek review of Iron Mountain for Book World under a pseudonym, as is his wont...
...Then began a life pattern that would soon become familiar in U.S. cultural pursuits-in which hundreds of the gifted, the talented or the merely qualified would live from grant to mouth, or move, like modern Lollard friars, from college to college, claiming hospitality by right of authorship. The Lowells drifted to Louisiana State University, and then back to Kenyon. Lowell's poetry was excruciatingly difficult and ambiguous; as he said later, "it really wasn't poetry...
...concert's most attractive feature was a program devoted to music of the twentieth century--and there wasn't a chestnut within hearing. Some of the works were by composers whose names are quite unfamiliar (Maurice Ohana and Alexandre Hrisanide); others were of more familiar authorship but were themselves infrequently performed works...
There remained important differences in opinion, of course, even among those who signed. Some wanted the letter to be more strongly worded. Others argued that it should be shortened and toned down. The final letter was a compromise, for which no one student leader could claim authorship...