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...person may pick up a volume of correspondence now and then and read a letter here and there, but he never gets any connected idea of what the man is trying to say and abandons the book for the poems of John Greenleaf Whittier." --James Thurber (from "The Letters of James Thurber." The New Yorker...
...metaled sky. On horseback alongside them, stern, proud, aristocratic, rides their young colonel, Robert Gould Shaw. Here, just across from the gold-domed statehouse, Shaw led the North's first black regiment down Beacon Street and off to war. "The very flower of grace and chivalry," John Greenleaf Whittier wrote of Shaw's departure, "he seemed to me beautiful and awful, as an angel of God come down to lead the host of freedom to victory...
...work with the Products Safety Commission and other agencies has given her "an extremely varied background in the whole regulation field," Charles W. Greenleaf, assistant director at the IOP, said yesterday...
...selected by the IOP, fellows must be active in public life, either in government or public interest groups, and must be "political activists," Greenleaf said. They are expected to lead study groups and do independent research...
Jimmy Carter's favorite authors are Dylan Thomas and James Agee, but this week the speed reader from Plains may be pondering the works of Rudyard Kipling ("If") and John Greenleaf Whittier, who wrote, "Of all sad words of tongue or pen the saddest are these: 'It might have been.' " It might have been that if Carter had taken certain steps earlier, inflation would be lower, the economy would be stronger and the President would be more popular. Hindsight, of course, is one of the few cheap things in this inflationary age. But it has value...