Word: viennaâ
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...reason is its high degree of specialization. Traditional capitals?London, Paris, Rome, Vienna???are centers of culture and commerce as well as government?filled with sensuous temptations and enticements to dalliance. The Washington ambience, by contrast, is a political pressure cooker?almost devoid of the soft lights and shadowed corners where small intimacies can flower into intimacy. It is slightly nerve-racking to be close to a man whose electronic "beeper" may go off any second to warn him that he is wanted at the White House; and those black overstuffed sofas in the offices on the Hill...
...accident of his birth is one of the funniest things about this thoroughly American versifier. When you meet him, you will find an earnest little gentleman, with a habit of talking swiftly and seriously, in a twang that is unmistakably U. S. A. He was born in Vienna???of American parentage, to be sure. However, any Viennese tendencies he may have had were safely obliterated by college training at the College of the City of New York, from which he was graduated in 1891. He then turned to editorial work and used the famous blue pencil in such offices...
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