Word: cullen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...John Bigelow (1817-1911), editor with William Cullen Bryant of the N.Y. Evening Post, Civil War consul to France and one of the founders of the Republican Party, was a lifelong man-behind-the-scenes. Historians had left him there...
...just a few feet ahead of him on his way to the railroad station-the man to whom Richard always wanted to speak, but never dared. Later Richard suspected him (correctly) of having delivered the mysterious sealed manuscript to his office. After their first formal meeting on Neighbor Sharpy Cullen's terrace, Richard encountered That Man many times-in his home, on his walks, even wearing the cap of a Manhattan taxi driver...
Grillparzer on schedule. During dinner there, a fire broke out in the kitchen and spread through the imitation Wienerwald. In trying to rescue Sharpy Cullen from the men's room, Richard perished in the fire, too rapidly to round out his life with one last epigram but not rapidly enough to prevent his getting the details of all but his last gasp into the memoirs-presumably by some sort of magic...
...postscript to Richard's story, written by Neighbor Sharpy Cullen, reveals something intended to carry walloping significance for the reader: Richard Tolman's real name was Toulemonde-everybody. It is doubtful that this information will prevent all the survivors of Mr. Morley's withering crossfire of literary quotations, rhymed commentaries, reflections on women and craw-sticking puns from realizing that in the latest Morley novel they have been fed a fuzzy allegory that pretends much and says little...
Cole's approach to landscape was typical of his day, which was also the age of William Cullen Bryant and James Fenimore Cooper. Seven years before his death in 1848, Cole explained that "American scenes are not destitute of historical and legendary associations; the great struggle for freedom has sanctified many a spot, and many a mountain stream and rock has its legend, worthy of the poet's pen or painter's pencil . . . And in looking over the uncultivated scene, the mind may travel far into futurity. Where the wolf roams, the plow shall glisten...