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"The guard who stood out above the field this season was Endicott Peabody of Harvard who might be described in Kipling's "Fuzzy-wuzzy" phrase as an "inja-rubber idiot on the spree" or a big, fast-moving beggar who broke practically all the hostile squares.
His humor was less in the tradition of the Miller's Tale than of the music hall, the kind that called for an elbow in the ribs and a broad wink. He: "Do you like Kipling?" She: "I don't know, you naughty boy, I've never...
None of this seemed to bother Kerr. Although he was often irrelevant, he was always interesting. He hemmed through Kipling's Recessional, hawed through the parable of the talents-and needled the liberals unmercifully. "I have great affection for the Senator from Tennessee," he cooed at Gore. "He and...
What Macmillan did not expect was a near mutinous-but short-lived-Conservative reaction. After the final round of firings, icy silence from the Conservative benches greeted Macmillan as he entered the House of Commons. By contrast, sacked Chancellor of the Exchequer Selwyn Lloyd drew tumultuous applause from his party...
But Jarrell writing about writers is another matter; his virtues are exactly those that Alfred Kazin lacks. Jarrell understands that what is serious need not be solemn. The scales of justice are part of his equipment, of course, but they are a lighter model than the vast, slow-swinging mechanism...