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Those lines are a prophetic summary of the modern temper; small wonder that Wallace Stevens wrote of Baudelaire, "His stanzas hang like hives in hell." It is to be hoped that Alex de Jonge's book will help to dispel the poet's legend and resurrect his verse...
That seemed to go for her new school too. By enrolling in 108-year-old Thaddeus Stevens Elementary, nine blocks from the White House, Amy became the first President's child to attend a Washington public school since Teddy Roosevelt's son Quentin in 1906. While that was...
In her first day in her combined fourth-and fifth-grade class, Amy practiced handwriting, read Paul Reveres Ride and studied the relationship of inches, yards and meters. One of her classmates, Maurice Brown, reported that "she's real smart. That's because she writes real neat." Mrs...
...wife of George Stevens, the director of the American Film Institute; many Carter friends and staffers were at her party for Tom Brokaw, host of NBC's Today show. Other partygivers in Washington, where the sitdown, candlelight dinner still prevails, have duly noted that the Harrimans and the Stevenses both served buffet style, in keeping with the Carter crowd's informal manner...
Holly Stevens is no Elliott Roosevelt, leaping in where Freud would fear to tread. But she does not shun legitimate speculation: Stevens' oblique, sensuous references and metaphors "bear deeply on a sexual relationship that may have some resemblance to that of my par ents, regardless of whatever literary connotations...