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Other poets may be read longer, but Ali showed he's no war monger. They tried to take away his prime, but Ali proved he still could rhyme. He really whupped them good this time. There may be poets greater than Ali, but can they float like a butterfly and sting like...
...Harlequins comes in the form of memoirs by the distinguished Russian-born novelist Vadim Vadimych N., a cranky exquisite who laments piteously the high initial cost and outrageous maintenance expense of owning an artistic soul. This gent, at the time of writing, is a formidable old illusion-monger with a high, rounded forehead and the vanity of a borzoi. He was born a prince. Bounced from home and privilege by the revolution, he studied at Cambridge, and then, under the pseudonym V. Irisin, wrote in Russian a number of novels "of not altogether displeasing preciosity" while living in Paris...
...columns (and about 6,000 words) a week. He remained the star-struck son of a Rumanian Jewish immigrant and chucked a law career in 1934 when the New York Post finally bent to years of entreaties and made him a columnist (at $50 a week). His refusal to monger scandal earned him the trust that the famous withheld from more waspish types like Walter Winchell and Dorothy Kilgallen. On George Bernard Shaw's 90th birthday, he granted Lyons an exclusive interview. Ernest Hemingway's wife Mary phoned Lyons with the first word that her husband was dead...
CHARLIE IS A cliche-monger, a master of the canned phrase--even when talking to himself. He compulsively wants to be liked by everybody because he so hates himself; he'll betray anyone when he's drunk or behind closed doors. His bar talk is full of clinging, self-conscious poses--the manner that the most pathetic clowners acquire in adolescence: They learn to copy bravado, but are sensitive enough to see its hollowness. They end up parodying themselves. Charlie's caught between outside pressure to conform to what traditionally held the neighborhood together, and peer pressure; between the pillars...
...office and he's got time to take a stand in Vietnam, but not against racism." In the integrationist era of the early 1960's, Malcolm's words were anathema to the mass of blacks and their leaders. He was denounced as a "devil" and a "hate monger." After Kennedy's assassination in 1963. Malcolm said. "It's just the chickens coming home to roost," a statement with which even Elijah Muhammad couldn't cope. Elijah imposed a 90-day suspension on Malcolm--a suspension that was never to be lifted...