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...copy of Herman Wouk's new novel The Winds of War, a gift from the author. "Pat Moynihan and Bill Safire pick books for me. In the reading field I am basically a history buff?history and biography. If I pick out anything to reread, such as Sandburg's Lincoln, I mark pages I like. It's poetry, of course...
After the great Chicago fire-100 years ago last month-the city rebuilt itself in an original and handsome style that became one of its proud distinctions. Chicago may have been Sandburg's "Hog Butcher," but there was also the Chicago school of architecture. None of the city's architects surpassed Louis Sullivan, whose buildings combined elegant ornament with a functional austerity that was to influence the imaginations of great 20th century builders like Frank Lloyd Wright...
Alcoholic Pop. Pot smokers alone cannot account for the phenomenal rise in pop-wine sales, which are now roughly estimated at $75 million a year. Despite the bonanza, there are still purists among the vintners. "I don't approve of these wines," says Sig Langstadter, wine buyer for Sandburg Super Mart in Chicago. "I don't think they should be considered wines. They're just soft drinks with alcohol...
Frost was plagued by professional jealousy. He resented every other poet from Eliot to Sandburg and suffered torments at Edwin Arlington Robinson's success. Even timid Marianne Moore seemed a threat. She "had been turning you against me," he wrote their common publisher...
WHEN a U.S. diplomat called on Major General Yakubu ("Jack") Gowon last week, he noticed a well-thumbed volume of Carl Sandburg's biography of Abraham Lincoln on the desk of Nigeria's 35-year-old military leader. Gowon had apparently read it carefully. He quoted Lincoln on the problem of "binding up the nation's wounds" and the need to ensure that "the dead shall not have died in vain." Throughout Nigeria's civil war, Gowon operated on the Lincolnesque proposition that "a house divided against itself cannot stand." In the process, he became quite...