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However, Taylor's exclusion of any first-rate author but Cooper perhaps overdoes a good thing. Precisely because the Southern Cavalier so closely resembled the Romantic hero--doomed, indecisive, in love with decay--it is a shame that Taylor does no more than mention Poe (in a casual reference to Roderick Usher) and the lesser-known Southern Gothics...
Died. Marie, Princess Bonaparte, 80, wealthy widow of Greece's Prince George and great-granddaughter of Napoleon's eldest brother Lucien, who shook off her royal trappings and reputation as "the greatest heiress in France" to become a lay psychoanalyst (she wrote a book analyzing Edgar Allan Poe) and translator of her close friend, Dr. Sigmund Freud; in St.-Tropez, France...
...Aeronaves de Mexico DC-8 crashed and burned after an aborted take-off from New York's Idlewild Airport on Jan. 19, 1961 (4 dead, 102 survivors), apparently primarily because Eastern Air Lines Pilot William B. Poe closed the throttles just after liftoff. Poe, on hand to check out the plane's Mexican crew, was misled by an evidently faulty airspeed indicator which made him think the aircraft was not picking up speed fast enough to sustain flight...
...Golden Age. The coupling of the somewhat unreal and surrealistically horrifying present with an all too real past that can never completely die in the memory lies at the heart of Faulkner's artistic creation. This sense of time is both peculiarly Southern and universal: one thinks of Poe, of Proust, of Lanier, or even of Francois Villon...
Singer's reading went beyond what was prescribed. He studied Spinoza, and still remembers many passages by heart. He read the Continental classics; "I read your Jack London in Yiddish and Poe in Polish." He has translated many Western classics into Yiddish, most recently Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain...