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...When Wordsworth determines the mark...
...will deliver today's Wordsworth students? Allen Ginsberg...
Your kindly and loving obit for Franklin P. Adams [April 4] evoked long-forgotten memories of his "Conning Tower" columns, which, secreted among the pages of William Wordsworth's output, helped a desperate group of college juniors get through an uninspired course in romantic poetry...
...Smith at the 1924 convention, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who had been the party's vice-presidential candidate in 1920, and was recovering from his polio attack, applied to him a tag that stuck for the rest of Smith's life. Quoting from an 1807 poem by William Wordsworth, Roosevelt wound up the speech with...
...Estimated increase during the Eisenhower era, 1953-60: 12%. *Whether or not the tag helped Smith, it did help Roosevelt: he became known as the man who called Al Smith the Happy Warrior. But Roosevelt deserved little credit. The Wordsworth couplet (from the poem that was read at Grover Cleveland's funeral in 1908) was written into the nominating speech by its principal ghostwriter, New York Judge Joseph M. Proskauer. Roosevelt accepted the idea reluctantly, argued that the flourish was too literary for hardheaded convention delegates...