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Aviation to Xylophones. By the middle '30s, Mencken's influence had begun to fade. Mencken was as much the victim of the depression as the shivering vagrant to whom he once gave his overcoat on Times Square. He refused to take the depression seriously: "What goes up must come down. [That's] all the economic theory worth knowing." But a frightened and hungry U.S. public had no stomach for ridicule, and ridicule had always been the popular basis for the Mencken boom. By the late '30s, many bright young people barely knew who Mencken...
...same question might be asked of Stevens' poems, most of which begin to fade as soon as they are read. But though they resist the memory as well as the intelligence, their delicate, twangy music-as full of surprises as a zither-sometimes delights the ear. Few living poets can be as vivid and as vague, both at once...
After World War I, baseball drew a big crop of rookies who pushed aside the veterans of their day and made names for themselves. Ever since World War II, the fans have been waiting for it to happen again. Instead, they have seen spring wonders fade like morning glories in July. But by last week, as the season reached midpoint, a handful of rookies had not only won regular jobs but fans as well. They looked like the cream of the best new crop in years...
Like Robin Hood's men, his army would strike swiftly in small groups-kidnaping some purse-proud landlord here, killing a sheriff's man there-and fade elusively into mountain caves, vineyards and wheatfields. In seven years Giuliano's men had killed 79 national carabinieri, 25 local policemen, 40 civilians. They had collected more than $1,000,000 in ransoms from 30 kidnapings. Like Robin Hood's men they were said to rob only the rich & powerful. Half in hero worship and half in fear, the local peasants clamped their lips tight and kept their faces...
...Wimbledon's center court next day, Patty took the first set with flashy attacks at the net, 6-1. Since Sedgman is a notably slow starter, this did not overly surprise the big, pro-Sedgman crowd. They sat back to watch Patty fade...