Word: sandburg
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Here we have our Literary City, birthplace and/or alma mater to Willa Cather, Hemingway, Sherwood Anderson, Dreiser, B. Traven, Algren, Bellow. Who gets to hang the tag on it? Carl Sandburg...
...Carl Sandburg does the honors, and Chicago is "Hog Butcher for the World," and there you have...
Sometimes you've just got to pay the other guy off, and I'm talking about Carl Sandburg...
...taxi driver grunted. "Also," I continued, "I'd pay no attention to those commentators who are going to write about how this series shows that a team from Chicago, which Carl Sandburg called the 'City of the Big Shoulders,' can obviously push around a team from a city where, well, where people drink a lot of latte...
...power is clout, like the thud of an iron heel. Influence is sway, like being rocked in a hammock. But like the grass in Carl Sandburg's poem, influence has a way of spreading until it overwhelms every bump in its path. Leonid Brezhnev had power. Andrei Sakharov had influence. Power: the FCC. Influence: Howard Stern. What this means is that influence generally gets the last laugh. Alexander Hamilton never attained the presidency. His philosophical antagonist Thomas Jefferson did. But the world has gone Hamilton's way. By most measures, the country we live in today more closely resembles...