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...just what did he do? "I rather thought he was in investments," says Margaret Wimsatt, who often invited Doole to share Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner with her family. "He was a bit mysterious. I remember at a party at the Chinese embassy, he spent an awful lot of time talking to the Taiwanese ambassador. I asked him why, and he just said, 'We had a lot to talk about.' He would sort of peer at you through those thick black-rimmed glasses." Once, she recalled, she mentioned the name Richard Helms, former director of the CIA. "Do you know...
...ability to extricate the emotive/aesthetic from the intellectual/academic response is hampered particularly in dealing with literature. Needless to say, the aesthetician is today almost dispensable, even obsolete, in the verbal disciplines. Critic W. K. Wimsatt states rather bluntly: "The intellectual character of language makes literature difficult for the aesthetician." If this point needs elaboration, simply look at some college students' textual analyses to see how many are technicians for whom a judgment of taste or pure form requires non-analytic tools we have forgotten...
Boswell for the Defence: 1769-1774, edited by William K. Wimsatt Jr. and Frederick A. Pottle. Bozzy settles down to marriage and his law practice, but his exuberance soon gets the better of him. Volume VII of the Yale series...
Boswell for the Defence: 1769-1774, edited by William K. Wimsatt Jr. nd Frederick A. Pottle. Roistering Bozzy settles down to marriage and his law practice, but his exuberance soon gets the better of him. Volume VII of the Yale series...
Boswell for the Defence: 1769-1774, edited by William K. Wimsatt Jr. and Frederick A. Pottle. Bozzy gives a spirited account of his early, tumultuous years as husband and Edinburgh attorney. Volume VII of the Yale series...