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...certainly helps to explain the rise of an audience for modernist writing. But it was an audience chiefly of fiction readers. Fiction had claimed "real life," and in 1910 poetry was subsisting, for the most part, on vague appeals to nature and to God. Though from 1897 on, Edwin Arlington Robinson had been writing his grim, intelligent poetry of American failures (Miniver Cheevy among them), he was not a popular American poet: Joyce Kilmer and Edgar Guest were the poets who sold...
...Korean History and director of the Korea Institute, Ezra F. Vogel, Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences and director of both the Asia Center and the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, and Susan J. Pharr, associate dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics will accompany Rudenstine during different segments of his trip...
...when Edwin P. Hubble discovered in 1929 that the universe was expanding, Einstein was deeply embarrassed. For the remainder of his life, he referred to the cosmological constant as his "greatest blunder...
...DIED. EDWIN J. SHOEMAKER, 90, homespun engineer who furnished living rooms--and couch potatoes the world over--with his invention of the La-Z-Boy recliner; while sitting in one of his signature seats in Sun City, Ariz. After a few drafting lessons from correspondence school, Shoemaker in 1928 joined a cousin to make a reclining porch chair using a piece of plywood and a yardstick. In later models, of which there were many, Shoemaker jazzed up the chair with plush upholstery, a retractable footrest, and during the '60s, a feature that allowed the sitter to recline and rock simultaneously...
...DIED. EDWIN ROSARIO, 34, troubled boxer; of acute pulmonary edema that may have been caused by drugs; in Toa Baja, Puerto Rico. Thrice world lightweight champion, Rosario was brought low by cocaine abuse in the early 1990s...