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...joke. The old Mercury lost its following, and less than five years later many a bright college boy did not know who Mencken was. At a political convention, when a photographer asked him his name and occupation, Mencken solemnly wrote: "Retired six-day bicycle rider." But in his sundown. Mencken found new activities that assured his reputation as a man of letters. His monumental American Language, his three-volume autobiography*and A New Dictionary of Quotations, all written just before and during World War II, will be read long after his yellowed news clips and acid essays are forgotten...
Between the gods and the faithful who worship at the 100 Jain* temples of Ahmedabad in western India stand 600-odd priests. Theirs is a hard and holy life; they say ritual prayers, guard temple treasures, abstain from smoking and drinking, sup before sundown (for lamps lure moths to destruction), and wear white cloth pads over their noses and mouths (lest their breathing destroy gnats or germs). Their wages never exceed $5 a month...
Pentateuch) to his left arm and his forehead. He prays twice more each day, just before and just after sundown. He also reads from the Pentateuch for an hour daily. He tries to start writing by 9 o'clock, takes a lunch break at i, sometimes naps for a while, but gets back to his desk in time to turn out about 1,500 words a day. He rarely rewrites...
...Although Sundown is his eighth volume of poetry, Mark Howe is better known as a prolific historian, biographer (his life of Harvard's great Barrett Wendell won the 1924 Pulitzer Prize) and leading citizen of Boston. As a longtime editor of the Youth's Companion and the Atlantic Monthly, Howe has moved throughout his life near the stamen of flowering and fading New England. Since his wife's death he has lived at 16 Louisburg Square with an old friend and an Irish housekeeper. Most of his books are as Bostonian as the Old North Church. Samples...
...Sundown, Author Howe says: "This will be the last, of course." Still, he puts in a morning with his secretary each day, working over various literary projects, and regularly turns out verse, in meticulous longhand. His latest...