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...Kilimanjaro. Robert E. Lee Hardwick, a talk jockey on KVI in Seattle, has a different audience, the white middle class, and a different approach. He has taken a group up the slopes of Kilimanjaro and guided an expedition of gem hunters to the wilds of Idaho and Montana. Along the way, he has started a mock fan club of 15,000 for Seattle Pilots Shortstop Ray Oyler, who had the next to the lowest batting average in the American League one season, and he has led angry taxpayers to Olympia, the state capital, to press for tax reform...
...belief that old traditions can be changed and that men and women can learn anything-even how to be men and women-the feminist movement is characteristically American. As Critic Elizabeth Hardwick has noted, the movement rests "upon a sense of striving, of working, and it has the profoundly native ethical themes of self-reliance, personal responsibility, and equality. Preparation, study, free choice, courage, resolution: these are its images and emblems." The women's movement, she points out, is antipathetic to "the youth culture, which appeared more as a refusal, a pause in the labor of the vineyard, sometimes...
...Miss Hardwick notes that when Hawthorne wrote his great parable about men and women in America, The Scarlet Letter, in which Hester Prynne decides to make a lonely stand against Puritanism and hypocrisy, Mrs. Hawthorne read it and said that she liked it, but "it gave her a headache." In a sense, that is where we are still...
HUNTINGTON REED "TACK" HARDWICK...
Back to Roots. In the summer of 1949, Lowell married again. The bride, another writer, was Kentuckian Elizabeth Hardwick, who is now an editor of the New York Review of Books. That year he taught at Iowa State University. They spent most of the next three years in Europe, where Lowell plunged into a temporary gambling fling at Monte Carlo. After his mother's death in 1954, he took his wife to Boston and, with his inheritance, bought a big, comfortable town house in Back Bay. "The idea," says a friend, "was to recapture some roots. It was their...