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...Bureau. Robinson never quite knew what his duties were, and in 1909, when incoming Taft appointees demanded that he perform them, he resigned. But he was never again reduced to a mean struggle for subsistence. His verse flowed out increasingly in long dramatic poems, such as Merlin, Lancelot, and Tristram, written around the Arthurian legends. In time, he won three Pulitzer Prizes (1922, 1925, 1927), lived to see Tristram become such a bestseller in 1927 that it earned him royalties...
What was the biggest satisfaction he ever got out of the job as assistant to L.I.U.'s President Tristram W. Metcalfe? That was the day in 1946, says Bee, when Metcalfe was away, and Bee, as his assistant, had to answer a letter from the University of Kentucky. Somebody at Kentucky wanted to know what, in the light of L.I.U.'s experience with basketball coaches, they ought to offer to pay Coach Adolph Rupp. Bee answered that at L.I.U. the basketball coach considers his job just a labor of love-and doesn't care about money...
...That's how I came to read Tristram Shandy-which I did not enjoy. So I returned . . . to G. B. Stern and for 15 years she's been my favorite authoress. Once I had lunch with her at Albany, Piccadilly. It was a slap-up meal with the nicest steak I've ever eaten...
...became bestsellers in the U.S., he sank more & more into the twilight of Parisian cocktail parties and U.S. college lecture platforms ("an old man mad about writing," he once described himself). As a lecturer at Michigan's Olivet College in the '30s, he reminded one student of Tristram Shandy's garrulous Uncle Toby-a "vast, benevolent and harmless Uncle Toby, leaning on his stick . . . and wheezing out his stories of Henry James as Toby might have spoken of Marlborough. His books seemed [to us] like medals achieved, perhaps, in the Crimea; and we read Auden, Kafka, Evelyn...
...taste. - Did not Dr. Kunastrokius, that great man, at his leisure hours, take the greatest delight imaginable in combing of asses' tails, and plucking the dead hairs out with his teeth, though he had tweezers always in his pocket? ... De gustibus non est disputandum" - Laurence Sterne, in Tristram Shandy As far as many U.S. citizens are concerned, biting asses' tails, as a leisure occupation, is not much more inexplicable than a lively taste for modern art, especially if it is abstractionist art. What's more - as Washington's Corcoran Gallery of Art has good reason...