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...Dublin paper once decided that he was the "bard of the bogs." Robert Lowell took the high road, designating him the greatest Irish poet since Yeats. Seamus Heaney (pronounced Hay-knee) finds very little comfort in either encomium. "The first annoys me," he grumbles. "The second makes me uncomfortable...
...growing things were a war on nature: "Their machines moved out over the fields, the mower clattering, breaking down at least twice a day. The old man stomped and swore. He nicked his hands replacing sharp steel teeth. The hayrakes followed his mower, his sons turning the dried hay into neat, continuous piles that looked like whorls of a huge thumbprint." A mother lays down the facts of life as immutable laws: "There's a lot more to life than the kind of love you mean. . . There's children and dogs and a garden to water. There...
...here. I've never felt so feminine." However, the black-bearded driver Alex, while helping a British woman carry her groceries, says aside, "I would never do this for my wife." For all the little cars darting about the streets, occasionally having to swerve around a horse-drawn hay wagon or a cow, no women drivers have been spotted in a week. The dark worry of terrorism that has lately attended all Olympic gatherings seems somewhat lighter on the eve of the XIV Winter Games (remember, Yugoslavia confounded Hitler without much help). Four years ago, at Lake Placid...
...just this response that Biographer Scott Elledge, an English professor at Cornell, tries to deflect. The life of Author E.B. White, 84, Elledge keeps insisting, has been harder than it looks, from birth onward: "Elwyn was not a weakling or a sickly child, but he was not robust . . . his hay fever was so severe that his father took him (with the rest of the family) to Maine for the month of August in the hope of escaping the pollen that made him miserable." After enduring these hard knocks, this youngest of six children of well-to-do parents went...
...mainly to the economic recovery, some firms in mundane industries were among the big winners. The star performer on the N.Y.S.E. was APL, a once struggling paper-products manufacturer whose fortunes have improved under the direction of Financier Victor Posner. Hesston, a Kansas-based farm-equipment company that makes hay balers and backhoes, harvested healthy earnings from improved tractor sales. Rymer, a little-known company in suburban Chicago, went through a metamorphosis in 1983, going from the furniture business to the food trade. The company's long-neglected stock tripled...