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Intellectuals have an awful time trying to cope with Ronald Reagan. Consider Edmund Morris, author of "Dutch," the lightly novelized Reagan biography published last year...
Mary McCarthy was beautiful when young and sharply handsome later on. She was the "Dark Lady of American Letters," tart tongued, astringently brilliant, a fierce gossip. Edmund Wilson, to whom she was married for a thoroughly horrible seven years, quoted a man who told her, "You're the only girl I ever knew who had the same kind of brains as a man and yet at the same time was perfectly beautiful...
...This is not the moment to discuss global warming, which of course violates the law of 99.9 percent continuum. But note, for what it is worth, that weather has always acted fierce and screwy from time to time. I look up Edmund Morris's description (in "The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt) of the winter of 1886-87, which settlers called the Winter of the Blue Snow. At the end of January - the Dakota Indians' "Moon of Cold-Exploding Trees" - there came banging down the worst storm in frontier history: "Children wandering out of doors froze to death within minutes... Women...
...Helen Keller b) Sir Edmund Hillary c) Charles Lindbergh d) Anne Frank
...military vehicles rumble through Paris, sees in their camouflage painting a kind of Cubism, therefore a kind of modernist triumph. That same year James Joyce begins Ulysses, overturning our traditional expectations for action, plot, drama and the direct impact of one character on another in the novel. "Like Proust," Edmund Wilson writes, "he is symphonic rather than narrative...musical rather than dramatic...