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...authority. But it may also invite violent opinions and firm prejudices. Latest case in point: John Ciardi, 40, Boston-born, Tufts-educated poet, critic, and professor. When, in the course of his side job as poetry editor of the Saturday Review, a new book of verse by Anne Morrow Lindbergh-The Unicorn and Other Poems-came across his desk last month. Critic Ciardi communed with Poet Ciardi and then, in 1,500 sulphuric words, poured damnation on it. "I can certainly sense the human emotion that sends Mrs. Lindbergh to the writing." wrote Ciardi, "but of her poems I have...
...sensibility, then the importance of art is determined by the extent of the modification. (Whether the extreme modification of a few sensibilities, is more importance than a slight modification of many supposedly inferior sensibilities is of no concern here. A debate on the comparative importance of Rimbaud and Anne Lindbergh hangs on the democracy of your taste. (Personally, I am afraid that not even politicians, much less artists, can be both democratic and honest with themselves...
...elderly outfit (founded in 1870) and valiantly impervious to new ideas, especially when presented by a young Swedish missionary so full of bounce that he could hardly stay on the floor. Rossby left the bureau hurriedly in 1927 after making an unauthorized weather forecast (a good one) for Lindbergh's Mexico flight...
...amendment to the Lindbergh Kidnapping law, punishing, but not with death, those responsible for mass deportations across state lines...
...heart balm" suits, gang wars and midnight revelries. Typical headline: HE BEAT MEI LOVE HIM. When a young mother walked into his office, introducing herself as Nan Britton and her child as the late President Harding's illegitimate daughter, Gauvreau splashed her story. He got the jump on Lindbergh's arrival in Paris before the plane had even been sighted in Ireland by taking a chance on printing and distributing 50,000 papers plastered with the photo of a grinning Lindy and the caption, WELL, I MADE IT. He "exposed" the Atlantic City beauty contest as a "frame...