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...behind 30-ton vault doors-one room is lined with safe-deposit boxes. Ancient glass-covered safe doors serve as tables, wine lists arrive in zippered moneybags, and place mats are blown-up replicas of $1,000 bills. Checks are paid to a cashier appropriately ensconced behind a teller's window. A six-ton armored car drives through town as an advertisement, and to make a reservation one has only to dial the telephone letters A HOLDUP...
...nature Frost believed himself capable of is now visible almost entirely in his great body of poetry. Kathleen Morrison focuses mostly on the small things that went into making Frost the man. He knew Latin well. He hated banks, perhaps because when he was a young man a teller mocked him for having a small unearned income. He was a shrewd house carpenter. He loved his collie. He was mortified when he visited Russia and thought (mistakenly) that he was not to be permitted to see Khrushchev...
Upstages Headliners. "They all think I'm a freak," says Maggie. But despite the gypsy fortune-teller exterior, Scotland's princess of wails is about as funky as a Girl Scout. Music is her life, Maggie maintains, although she does not disdain the idea of marriage. She cannot pass a child without smiling, and youngsters in return respond to Bell's fresh-faced charm. "The high point of my career," she reflects gravely, "was when I came to the U.S. and found that Americans are allowing single people to adopt babies...
...that the approach would be neither magical nor mysterious. It's good, it's all there, but it's Blotner. Why not Carvel Collins, Cleanth Brooks, Malcolm Cowley? These names (and writings) ring, echo Quentin Compson, promise a more magical treatment--a story told worthy of the great story-teller. But Collins fought with the Faulkner family a while back--sin number one for a megabiographer--and his biography had to wait for Blotner's. Cleanth Brooks will eventually come out, I hope, with his second volume of Yoknapatawpha, which probably will be the most analytic and thought-provoking treatment...
...this moment has come upon us. Now there's automation, we have the computer. This applies to white collar as well as blue, of course. The bank teller, she's wondering about her work: Is it that important? Remember the marvelous fireman at the end of the book, Tommy Patrick...