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...critics were more than happy to settle for what they got. Looking at his prints was like seeing a strange world through the wrong end of a telescope. It took a long time to see any of the pictures; each one was loaded with details. Said Charles Lamb: "Other prints we look at, his prints we read...
...says Editor Housman, Wordsworth is the great poet "it is most easy to laugh at, and sometimes the most difficult not to find dull." He was conservative, parochial, smug. "I could have written like Shakespeare," Wordsworth is reported to have said to Charles Lamb, "had I had a mind." "Yes," stammered Lamb, "it was the m-m-mind that was 1-1-lacking...
Company spokesmen, after hearing Lawyer Gaston's formula, quickly decided that it was nothing but a union checkoff in lamb's clothing. They emerged snorting: "Completely unacceptable . . . that man was very fresh to us." (Two days later Gaston was removed from the Stamford assignment, another casualty among labor-management alchemists...
Probably very few Canadians would now be interested. They had been lured by some very lush prizes: a $15,000 ranch or fruit farm "in sunny British Columbia"; a 1946 Lincoln Zephyr; an all-expense trip to Europe or $1,000 in cash; a $12,000 house; $500 Persian lamb coats; refrigerators, washing machines and scads of smaller consolation prizes. Among the most successful bingo operators in Ontario was the Lions Club of Ottawa, which has drawn as many as 8,000 participants to its monthly game in the barnlike Auditorium...
...first the words sounded impudent, as when she thumbed her nose, in pungent book reviews, at literary lights like G. B. Shaw and H. G. Wells. The cleverness and impudence matured into eloquence and insight, and in criticism and novels (The Judge, The Return of the Soldier, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon), Rebecca West proved herself one of the most ardently articulate Englishwomen of her time...