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MARTHA GRAHAM SWIRLS towards the camera, her body twisted into an impossible arc of grace, seeming acres of white fabric billowing behind her. Gertrude Stein, draped in heavy black velvet, stares at the camera with a superior mixture of anger and amusement. Edna St. Vincent Millay struts militantly right up to the camera, clutching a placard that says "American Honor Dies With Sacco and Vanzetti!" Georgia O'Keefe will not look at the camera--she gazes instead at the dry colorless earth which stretches for miles in all directions...
...Bronx Zoo, obviously more at home with the elephants behind her than the photographer in front of her. Edith Wharton is draped in elegant furs and lace. Here the magazine begins to make sense. Martha Graham and Twyla Tharp are placed opposite each other; Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, and Edna St. Vincent Millay share a page. The bond between these women is a real one of spirit and vision, not some strange stew concocted by the editors at Time-Life...
...GEORGE S. KAUFMAN and EDNA FERBER...
Following graduation and a six-month sojourn in Europe, Reed settled down in Greenwich Village where he got a job on Max Eastman's New Masses. Here Reed came into contact with artists and intellectuals--Van Wyck Brooks, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Max Weber, and Eugene O'Neill among them--who pushed the tenor of political consciousness in the Village toward the Left...
...Edna St. Vincent Millay aroused both Wilson's intellectual and physical passion to "a blaze of ecstasy." But Millay, who had the same effect on dozens of men, was soon off for Europe. Wilson had to share his farewell embrace on a day bed with another admirer, John Peale Bishop, "I [holding] her lower half and John her upper-with a polite exchange of pleasantries as to which had the better share...