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...Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" ("Unutterably dull...
...commit a greater one in typing Robert Burns's career as a rake's progress. An early prohibitionist named Curne gave the legend a head start 150 years ago; in a biography written shortly after Burns's death, he portrayed him as a kind of Paul Bunyan of literary bad boys: a convivial roisterer of unslakable thirst and insatiable lust...
...that led all the rest: Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, Melville's Moby Dick, Milton's Paradise Lost, Spenser's Faerie Queene, Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, Richardson's Pamela, Eliot's Silas Marner, Scott's Ivanhoe, Cervantes' Don Quixote, Goethe's Faust...
...faced, cowlicked and unabashed young man who says of himself: "I first took up the violin, didn't practice. Then the viola, didn't practice that either. So I became a composer." He has practiced that. At 29, he has to his credit a ballet suite, Paul Bunyan, half a dozen short orchestral and choral works, and two string quartets. His second quartet, composed in 1944, won him a blessing from New York critics, a National Institute of Arts and Letters grant, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a job teaching composition at Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music...
Anzac airmen knew about Mohammed's uncle, who had the voice of 100 trumpets, and Paul Bunyan, who could kill a pond-ful of bullfrogs with a single shout. Big, barrel-chested, ramrod-stiff Jimmy Duncan came close to outshouting them both. The legend was that once when Jimmy told a lagging ground crew to "pick up those feet," the pilot of a bomber approaching the airdrome hastily retracted his landing gear. On an occasion when Jimmy was drilling a squad of recruits in a Wellington park, another squad half a mile away had to quit because they couldn...