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...first reading, this new chapter in what Poet Robert Lowell has called "my verse autobiography" seems anticlimactic, a retelling of what took place after the curtain dropped. For Lizzie and Harriet and The Dolphin, both published in 1973, took Lowell through the termination of his second marriage and the beginning of his third. The poetry in those two paired volumes was only infrequently up to Lowell's best, but the sustained drama of the situation-and the poet's vivid evocations of both anguish and exhilaration-provided enough momentum to carry even weak poems along...
...Ricks Memorial Library every afternoon. Harriet DeCell and her hospitality group worked hard to disseminate information to the visitors and have them mingle with the townspeople, who act the way good people do who are not accustomed to being juxtaposed with too many celebrities: a little jumpy and voluble. A woman asked privately, "Did Theodore Roosevelt draw in this many in 1902?" [Answer: No.] A young visitor from Long Island saw a crop duster circling the cotton fields near the new school where the meeting would take place, and thought it might be a Government plane looking for Communists...
Other megabuckers have not had breathing space to adjust to the reality of wealth. Laments Harriet Selwyn, 46, who built her California fashion firm Fragments into a million-a-year enterprise last year (TIME, Feb. 21): "One really needs two lives. One to get to the top. The other to enjoy...
...insistently for the observers to immerse themselves in the world set up by the painting, to enter, look, note and depart. No one observant could refuse them. But there are new discoveries here, too--and they are perhaps even more intriguing, because less famous. Ammi Philips's Portrait of Harriet Leavins (1815) strikingly modern in its primitiveness; or Ingres's Study for Andromeda, a fascinating closeup of a lone marble woman that lets you see how Ingres sculpted his figures to achieve that smooth sensuality of form; or Monet's Fish (1870) whose glinting gold and silver scales formed...
...thumbed through the journals the family kept during the first few rainy months there, when they were living in a sodden tent. Silly phrases, children's art work and Harriet's more sophisticated doodles interrupted the more serious accounts of battles with county officials and with the coast guard. Local bureaucrats had tried to halt construction in the valley, had subpoenaed the residents because they did not use electricity, had withdrawn permits because the group was building with recycled wood and had tried to arrest them without even looking at their blueprints for sanitary and ecological compost privy structures...