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...letters of this extraordinary man. The impressive range of correspondents reflects MacLeish's wide-ranging interests and his knack for getting involved with the public of his time. He was particularly close to Amy Lowell, Dean Acheson, and Ernest Hemingway. He wrote often to Henry Luce, Ezra Pound, Robert Frost, and T. S. Eliot '10, and occasionally to Felix Frankfurter. J. Robert Oppenheimer and F.D.R. And the letters are full of MacLeish's articulate and often beautifully phrased observations on everything from political campaign strategies to the function of poetry. What emerges is a cohesive portrait of a powerful...
...only for his sake but for the good name of the country: after ten years it was beginning to look like persecution." For the next few years, MacLeish worked through his contacts in the Justice and State Departments and coordinated a successful joint request by Eliot, Hemingway, and Frost to drop the charges against Pound...
...likes beautiful cars," Nixon once told Television Interviewer David Frost, "and he likes beautiful women." Nixon vividly recalls the procession of women who followed in Brezhnev's wake when he visited the summer White House at San Clemente, Calif., in 1973. Women often appreciated his bantering flattery...
...When the frost and show arrive, Mayer does not put away the soccer cleats, she just moves inside and plays indoor soccer with some of her teammates. Then in the spring she plays club soccer in Wellesley with players and alumnae from nearby colleges. This spring however she is considering playing softball...
...this election, Texas was a district unto itself. With unemployment at 8.3%, higher than in Frost Belt states like Massachusetts and New Hampshire, Texans were feeling the brunt of a national economic downturn for the first time in more than two decades. Democrats came out in droves to help Populist Attorney General Mark White ambush Republican Governor Bill Clements. White roused the voters not only over the economy but also with the somewhat spurious charge that the Governor should be held accountable for high utility rates. The Texas G.O.P. took a "shellacking," said the defeated Clements...