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...much undergraduate, or for that matter graduate (i.e., New Yorker) writing today, depend heavily on understatement, although Nash's understatement, paradoxically, is often prolix. The supreme achievement, however, is Arthur Freeman's poem "Whew": in a satire of Allen Ginsberg's "Howl", he has managed to get the muse of the Beat Generation for once to understate herself. This is no mean accomplishment...
...Music to Muse...
Millikan turned from the facts and figures to muse for a while about "science-fiction" type solutions for the problems...
Former Advocate editor T.S. Eliot cabled his remarks: "Your cablegram arrived too late/ And insufficiently addressed/ So you confuse my modest muse/ Who none the less cannot refuse/ Compliance with your kind request/ To greet The Harvard Advocate...
Pursuing its quarterly inquiry into "The Art of Fiction," the Paris Review tracked down Author Thornton Wilder, deftly skimmed the top cream of his thoughts. Since William Faulkner is convinced that good whisky is an aid to enticing the muse, could Wilder explain how liquor helps? Replied he: "Many writers have told me that they have built up mnemonic devices to start them off ... Hemingway once told me he sharpened 20 pencils, Willa Gather that she read a passage from the Bible, not from piety . . . but to get in touch with fine prose. My own springboard has always been long...