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Zevon is about equal parts berserk satirist and strung-out romantic. He can write desolating love songs with racked refrains like, "We made mad love/ Shadow love/ Random love/ And abandoned love...
DIED. Gilbert Arthur Highet, 71, whose lively as well as erudite studies dramatically depicted the classical world for millions of readers; of cancer; in Manhattan. The author of 14 books (The Classical Tradition, Juvenal the Satirist) and scores of essays, Highet analyzed the West's debt to ancient Greece and Rome. During three decades at Columbia University, the Scottish-born scholar (he became a U.S. citizen in 1951) won a devoted following by his stirring, animated classroom style, confirming his dictum that teaching does not need "quiet, weak men who want to creep into some little niche...
...verse; in Newtown, Conn. A captive of what he called "the poetic ictus," Untermeyer dropped out of a family jewelry business to write poems and later became the editor of more than 50 poetry anthologies, which helped establish such writers as Robert Frost and Amy Lowell. As critic, biographer, satirist and lecturer, Untermeyer helped lead the literary revolt against Victorian gentility and later became one of the most energetic public advocates of the art form he called "an effort to express the inexpressible in terms of the unforgettable...
...Braun's readiness to work for a new master and single-minded dedication to rocketry won him some critics. Satirist Tom Lehrer skewered Von Braun in a mocking song (Sample verse: "Once the rockets are up/ Who cares where they come down/ That's not my department/ Says Wernher von Braun"). Even some Von Braun admirers admitted that their hero was not always easy to like...
...marriage to Actor-Director Dennis Hopper, which ended in 1969. As for Hopper's creative activities of late, he was sitting for a portrait by a longtime friend, Artist Andy Warhol, and working on a screenplay of a William Burroughs novel, Junkie. His collaborator on the screenplay is Satirist Terry Southern, who is also collaborating with Hopper on his autobiography. His life with Brooke, says Hopper, 41, will be no more than a "peripheral part" of the work...