Word: mathiessen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...ranging life and of the stories which have grown up around them, my mind turns to incidents somewhat different from those used by your writer. I like to recall his moving letter to the Boston Herald in reply to the vulgar remarks of a columnist after F. O. Mathiessen's death. I like to remember the time when armed with nothing but quiet assurance he took an axe from the hands of a mentally disturbed student. I laugh to recall how his presidency of the Saturday Club led Robert Frost into a slip of the tongue at President Kennedy...