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...them beloved by educated men. The few foreign works include De Tocqueville's Democracy in America and Bryce's American Commonwealth. The committee tried to "avoid inflaming rivalry" by omitting all fiction by living American authors; had they not died recently, the library would not have Robert Frost, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway. But the American classics, old and new, are there: Emerson, Cooper, Hawthorne, Poe, Thoreau, Whitman, Melville, Henry Adams, Henry James, Mark Twain, O.Henry, Sinclair Lewis, Howells, Fitzgerald-and, should presidential browsers care, Louisa May Alcott's Little Women...
...from the Antarctic last week blew a chill and unexpected wind, clutching with its frosty fingers the hillsides and greening fields of coffee-rich Brazil. Brazil's coffeegrowers have learned to live with the danger of frost in June or July -it is now winter in the Southern Hemisphere-but the cold August wind caught them by surprise. Striking in the predawn light across the entire state of Parana (where most Brazilian coffee grows) and as far north as São Paulo, it wilted leaves and left September blossoms stillborn on the branch. Within hours, a lifeless swath...
...frost wind turns it brittle on my palm...
...Waste Land may find consolation in the fact that the authors are as unhappy as their audience. To Ezra Pound obscurity is not so much in "the language but in the other person's not being able to make out why you are saying a thing." Robert Frost recalls his own difficulty in understanding Philosopher George Santayana: "I found years afterward somewhere in his words that all was illusion, of two kinds, true and false." Owlishly, Frost goes on: "And I decided false illusion would be the truth: two negatives make an affirmative." It all comes down to "hinting...
...danger?" Accused of disloyalty to the U.S. because of his wartime broadcasts from Italy, Ezra Pound says broodingly, "T thought I was fighting for a constitutional point. I mean to say, T may have been completely nuts, but I certainly felt that it wasn't committing treason." Robert Frost, amused at being charged with conservatism, defines U.S. political parties in terms of sex: "The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat...