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...American college towns can match the vitality of life to be discovered in Harvard Square." Berkeley, maybe, but Ann Arbor? Ann Arbor has two movie theaters that alternate showing the "Sound of Music" and 13 drugstores selling blue and yellow Michigan banners across the counter at the soda fountain...
...silversmith was high art. In the Middle Ages silver in Europe was reserved for kings, princelings and powers, whether religious or secular. An established sculptor like Benvenuto Cellini did not consider it beneath him to fashion elaborate silver ewers and saltcellars, even though they looked more like the Trevi fountain than a functional device...
...finale to her long campaign to beautify Washington, Lady Bird Johnson dedicated this fountain, spraying 250 ft. above the Potomac...
...people who like Norman Mailer and Sylvia Plath (which is alright!) and read like a poet exhausted by the age. At dinner, he'd said something about growing "older and more vulgar," but in Burr he seemed young, and strangely erudite. Introducing one of his poems, "A Baroque Wall Fountain in the Villa," he dismissed the question of "transcendance and acceptance" as "sounding too much like a critic," but at other moments talked offhandedly of Pascal ("The spirit doesn't have any business denying things in the realm of fact"), St. Augustine ("The soul is complete in every part...
...does it boast the cogency of the Manchester book, the pertinent details-nor even the drama. As for style, it simply clogs the mind. Concerning Kennedy's arrival in Dallas, for example, Bishop writes: "This multiphrenic city sitting alone on a hot prairie like an oasis spouting a fountain of silver coins gave its elixir to John F. Kennedy." In the hospital, the body of Kennedy did not just lie there. "The clay of John F. Kennedy was cooling." When L.B.J. wanted to talk to Kenny O'Donnell and Larry...