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...looked now as if Raymond Duncan, brother of the late Isadora and undisputed leader of the homespun Attic cult in Paris, would be busy with salons on two continents. In Manhattan for his first visit in 15 years, Raymond was charmed with the place, planned to shuttle back & forth between Paris and Manhattan hereafter. "New York," said 72-year-old Raymond, his feet in sandals, his pageboy bob in a silvery fillet, "is like an old California mining town. ..." While he was at it he discussed miners. "The miners have a gun . . . and the public has to give up! ... Unions...
Katherine Marshall has written what she frankly calls "this homespun account" because "General Marshall has told me that he will never write his own memoirs, his knowledge of people and events being too intimate for publication." The result is a friendly, chatty, modest collection of data and trivia that rarely goes beyond the bounds of domesticity...
Biographer A. J. Hanna, professor of history at Rollins College, is handicapped by generally skimpy sources, but gives tantalizing glimpses of an ex-Crown Prince wearing homespun, of tea served in a log house with Napoleonic gold spoons and damask napkins bearing the royal Neapolitan crest...
Taking issue with those who consider Lincoln's writing as an innocent or plain homespun talent, Editor Easier argues that it is the work of a conscious literary craftsman. Although he had little formal education, Lincoln studied rhetoric in his spare time, pored over Aesop's Fables and the King James Bible, wrote practice exercises in prose and verse. By the time he had reached 28, Easier declares, he had already acquired the skill "which marks all his later work . . . [although his] taste improves much thereafter, as his literary stature increases...
Miss Webster, who by now is an old hand at producing Shakespeare, has still not mastered the job. She has attempted to tie loose historical ends together with two speeches by a chorus-like character who informs the audience by a homespun Elizabethan intonation of what is happening. And she has aggravated the injury of the famous pre-curtain eulogy to Queen Elizabeth by humorously poor staging...