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...letters, Jarrell struggled constantly with his contradictory urges to chastise and create. When Edmund Wilson praised him for a review, he wrote back expressing thanks and explaining, "Of course I care about [my] poems a million times more." In another letter he summarized an essay he was contemplating called "The Age of Criticism": "Brothers, if you write enough criticism like this, in the end nobody will even want to write a limerick." It did not escape Jarrell's notice that he was a prime example of a tendency he deplored...
...Woodrow Wilson. In 1919, during a whistle-stop tour of the nation, the 28th President was struck down near Pueblo, Colo., by an embolism that left him half paralyzed and with slurred speech. Back in Washington he recovered, only to suffer a second and irreversible stroke. During the final 17 months of his second term, the U.S. was shakily ruled by a triumvirate consisting of Wilson's second wife Edith, his White House secretary, Joe Tumulty, and his doctor, Cary Grayson. Cabinet meetings petered out slowly. The first one, held in almost complete, shocked silence, as Wilson's mind wandered...
...Deukmejian has declared a state of emergency in seven counties. So far, three people have died in California, and hundreds of fires, both large and small, continue to race out of control. "It's the worst ever, and we're just at the beginning of the season," said Jack Wilson, a director of the Federal Interagency Fire Center, based in Boise. "This is going...
...While Wilson will definitely be featured to close in the weekend double-headers, freshman starter Shawn Haviland may also see time in those crucial eighth and ninth frames...
...Wilson had been needed in the first game of Saturday’s double-header against Cornell, Walsh said, it actually would have been Haviland—Sunday’s game two starter against Princeton—who toed the rubber in the eighth...