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When it comes to fighting inflation, food prices count too. The President seems penny-wise and pound-foolish...
Penny-Wise, Pound-Foolish...
...Wabash was little more than a sleepy hoosier hamlet whose forefathers picked up the town name from the local Indians. The Indians called it Ouabouigou, which means "shining white." Fittingly enough, in 1880 Wabash became the first town in the world to install electric street lights. An uninspired Ezra Pound pined away on the Wabash faculty until he was dismissed after allowing a destitute woman of ill repute to spend a night in his room, an act which offended the straightlaced morals of the town...
Year award, she "just busted the front" of a new dress made for the occasion. Oh, well, shrugged Dolly: "I guess it's like my Daddy said. You shouldn't try to put 50 pounds of mud in a five-pound sack...
Although he is often harsh on him self, Spender seems to have been less consistently wrong than fairminded. He was generous in praise of Yeats, Eliot and Pound, whose work had political leanings alien to his own: "The reactionaries never thought that they should put their art at the service of the ideology of the authoritarian fascistic leaders, in the way that many leftists thought that they should put theirs at the service of Marxism and of the political bureaux which laid down the Communist Party lines...