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Recent events, however, have given me reason to doubt my long-standing loyalty to the Times. It's not that the Times no longer has first-rate coverage of the news. It's just that, as Emily Dickinson would say, it "tells it slant." Slowly but surely, the New York Times has been steering towards the right. Not the idealistic right of Ronald Reagan and the Heritage Foundation, but the pragmatic right of columnists like William Safire and Flora Lewis...
Michigan 59, Fairleigh Dickinson...
...Emily Dickinson...
...sometimes the riled imagination can yield convincing ghosts. Says Marguerite Young, poet and author of the dreamlike novel Miss Macintosh, My Darling: "I see Emily Dickinson quite often, Virginia Woolf, and Dickens. Poe ... oh, all the time, I see him on misty nights at Sheridan Square when the raindrops are falling." Young admits her visions are irrational, yet they are real and useful to her. Even as balanced a writer as Susan Sontag summons up persuasive phantoms, those subtle abstractions that take shape in her essays but scarcely survive outside their contexts...
...Huck Finn, itching to travel. "Dress warmly," Walt's dead mom told him. And we're off to see Louisa May Alcott, who's having an affair with a Tahitian prince. Over there's Charlotte Cushman, the noted actress, playing Hamlet to Emily Dickinson's Ophelia; they become co-stars and lovers. Old Ralph Waldo Emerson is having a chat with the dead Henry David Thoreau: "Sex can be messy; art can't. That's why I've always preferred it." Then just about everyone shows up in Montana, where Louisa falls...