Word: bookes
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...experience. Out of her mouth came the strange words of one Ogden Nash: "Don't bother your head about sins of commission/ because however sinful, they must at least be fun or else/ you wouldn't be committing them." Barbara Jean's parents pored through the book, found at least 30 objectional poems. Most shocking were three by Walt Whitman (/ Sing the Body Electric, A Woman Waits for Me, Spontaneous Me) and one by Ezra Pound (Ancient Music), which repeats the word "Goddamm...
...Herins yanked Barbara Jean out of Teacher Russell's class and consulted their pastor. He fired off a letter to Principal Larsh, who quickly agreed that the poems were "unsuitable" and that the book would be withdrawn. When Teacher Russell refused to do so, Alfred S. Roberts, a cheesemaker who heads the Venice Civic Union and devotes himself to ridding Venice of beatniks (TIME, Sept. 14), charged into the fray. What Barbara Jean's father calls the "poetry analogy" quickly vanished from the halls of Venice High School...
...casts to their firing-pits. In a finishing room, a workman lay in the arms of a large bronze nude, reverently polishing her nose. In another corner, Marc Chagall supervised the application of a patina to his latest piece. Mustache quivering, Salvador Dali dropped in to examine a bronze book cover that had just been cast...
Once interested, Harvardman ('17) Atkinson fixed his sights on an aisle seat in New York. Getting there involved five years of apprenticeship on two Massachusetts papers and a brief digression as English instructor at Dartmouth. By 1922 he was within strolling distance of Broadway, editing the Sunday book section of the Times; and three years later, when the Times's Drama Critic Stark Young resigned, Atkinson took Young's place...
Truth & Truisms. The chief pleasure of Ben Franklin during these years was journalism, and it is Franklin the journalist who dominates this book. There are the Addisonian "Silence Dogood" letters with their gently satiric barbs at Harvard College, bits of local gossip, humorous anecdotes, and a masterful and intricate essay on the value of a paper currency. In the profoundest sense, Franklin began a lifelong dialogue with his fellow Americans on their democratic destiny ("In those wretched Countries where a Man cannot call his Tongue his own, he can scarce call any Thing else his own"). But entertainment always...