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Twenty residents of the nation's intellectual community promptly rushed forth in public support of Lowell. Among them were Novelists Mary McCarthy, Philip Roth and Bernard Malamud; Critics Alfred Kazin and Dwight Macdonald; Poets John Berryman, W. D. Snodgrass and Alan Dugan. None of them had been invited to the White House, but that didn't make any difference...
...existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses." The poets have now repaid the compliment. Not since Lincoln's assassination has an American's death inspired so much poetry, the best of which has been collected in this volume. Established poets-W. H. Auden, Richard Eberhart, John Berryman, among others-lent their usual talent; lesser-known poets rose to more than usual eloquence; and all expressed an admiration for J.F.K. that undoubtedly would have shocked him: Robert Hazel ("President I love as my grandfather loved Lincoln"); Ruth Yorck ("We may stop worrying./ Our best man died./ We know...
...hard to go wrong on that face," says the Baltimore Evening Sun's Cartoonist Tom Flannery. "It has the look of one of those things on Mount Rushmore." Adds the Washington Star's John Berryman, who has been sketching Presidents since Calvin Coolidge: "Goldwater is perfect to draw. The glasses, of course, are his trademark, but he also has strong facial characteristics - a flat mouth, pearl-grey hair, a strong jaw and high cheekbones." Berryman, who tries "not to be vicious toward candidates," has so far produced the best Goldwater likeness...
...accentuates what he calls the President's "dish face." The Chicago Sun-Times's Bill Mauldin, who found Kennedy "inscrutable" and therefore hard to capture, ropes Johnson with ease: "He's scrutable. What he's thinking shows through." The Washington Star's James Berryman, who has harpooned Presidents for 31 years, considers Johnson "the answer to a cartoonist's prayer-with those great, heavy eyebrows, the tremendous darkness around his eyes, that long eagle beak, the short upper lip that makes him look like he doesn't have his uppers...
...father of the "Teddy bear" was the Washington Post's Cartoonist Clifford Berryman (1869-1949) who, in 1902, was moved by T.R.'s refusal to shoot a cub during a bear-hunting trip in Mississippi. The wedding reception incident four years later did a lot to popularize Berryman's baby...