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...opened his shop with 2800 books he had accumulated as a student, and ran it until his death. The Grolier, which specialized in poetry, was one of the last of the cafes for literati. Marianne Moore, Robert Lowell, Allen Ginsburg, James Tate Robert Bly '50, Conrad Alken '11, Robert Graves and Richard Wilbur often frequented the cozy one-room shop...
...before Commencement, last month, I watched him trade jokes with his friend, Bob Tonis, as earthy as ever. Last spring, at a Signet dinner, he matched his table companions, drink for drink, with that unpalatable vodka he used to like. And at a dinner a year ago, while James Tate was reading his poetry, Gordon sneezed, long and loud. Tate snapped "Shut up Gordon," and Gordon laughed as loud as he had sneezed...
...long, poignant sequence, the old man and his businessmen friends hon or their old teacher, nicknamed "the Gourd," who responds to their tribute by gratefully consuming large quantities of liquor. The men are touched by his almost desperate drunkenness, even as they feel threatened by his low es tate (he has been reduced to running a small noodle shop) and advancing years, so they take up a collection...
...strained pseudopoetic rhetoric and portentous declamatory style remind one of Maxwell Anderson scaling his molehills of dramatic verse. An intermittent sidebar monologue features an innocuous-looking Manson-family girl casually relating the horrors of the Sharon Tate murders with a lubriciously contented purr. Together with the repeated cue name of My Lai and references to the slaughter of innocents, of whom Iphigenia is the first, Rabe's intent is clear to the point of didactic overkill-to make the curse and crimes of the House of Atreus appear to be the inevitable pattern of all human behavior...
Cairnie has covered the walls of his small shop with photographs of some of his more celebrated patrons--Robert E. Bly '50, Allen Ginsberg, James Tate and Robert T.S. Lowell...