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...Arctic Frost. A few months earlier Mills might have welcomed the call from Fowler. Now he received it with arctic coolness; in fact, he had not met with both Fowler and the President since August. Mills has been insisting that a tax increase has to be matched by a decrease in expenditures. The Administration resisted, fearing that a cut of the magnitude demanded by Mills would gut federal welfare programs. One list of economies that was proposed would have eliminated vaccinations for children, and another would have slashed the school lunch and milk programs-proposals the Administration well knew would...
Because as Lowell says, "his dogmatism is completely unspoiled by the hedging equanimity that weakens the style and temperment of most serious writers," he became the most powerful American critic since Eliot. It is unlikely that anything better on Frost will ever be written than his "To the Laodiceans"--an exuberant reading of 35 of the best, but once unrecognized poems--most of them from Frost's dark side which he virtually discovered. And his review of Lowell's Lord Weary Castle reads, as one of the contributors says, like Coleridge on Wordsworth...
...Poetry and the Age, attests. He rejected what Poet Shapiro calls "Eliot's High Church voice" in favor of "plain American, which dogs and cats can read." He demanded plain speech and uttered it. Thus his heroes were homespun Wordsworth, unfashionable Kipling, Thomas Hardy, William Carlos Williams, Robert Frost and, of course, the greatest American poet to speak for the common man-Walt Whitman...
December in Missouri and the Angel of Frost has come...
After the Passover of the Angel of Frost...