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Although he was a faithful letter writer, Cheever assumed that his pen pals would destroy his missives as casually as he did theirs. He was thus startled in 1959 to hear from author Josephine Herbst that she had been saving his mail. "Yesterday's roses," he wrote back, playfully dismissing her collection of his work, "yesterday's kisses, yesteryear's snows." Cheever's unselfconscious approach allowed his imagination and love of language free play. The supposedly ephemeral results of this process were, paradoxically, often memorable. Here is a 1946 description of his surroundings during a vacation in New Hampshire...
...Robert Maxwell is a whirling dervish whose hyperkinetic activity seems designed to distract and confuse. In seconds, he can switch from a jaunty Brit to a ruthless schoolyard bully and back again. He is said to be worth $1.4 billion. Yet despite the colossal Mont Blanc gold pen he wields | like a fat cigar, the enormously expensive Lord & Stewart suit, the butter- soft cashmere overcoat, the private jet, the helicopter, the yacht with a crew of 14, the personal chef, the Rolls-Royces, the thing Maxwell really values most is time. Whether dealing with family, managers or minions, Maxwell...
...Pen: The Crimson went a bit overboard with penalties last weekend--Harvard players were called 17 times, which left the Crimson short-handed for nearly two full periods of action...
...Latin Quarter theater that screened the film. But Paris still smoldered with Temptation controversy last week. An investigation into the September attacks aimed at U.S. director Martin Scorsese's movie turned up evidence that militant Christian groups linked to the ultra-right National Front led by Jean-Marie Le Pen might be to blame...
...placards reading FREE CANADA, TRADE MULRONEY. Turner, driving his argument home, declared, "We built a country east and west and north. We built it on an infrastructure that deliberately resisted the continental pressure of the United States. For 120 years we've done it. With one signature of a pen, you've reversed that. It will reduce us, I am sure, to an economic colony of the United States...