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...Roosevelt, Mornings on Horseback, has researched all his books at the Athenaeum. He calls the library "a marvelous example of what a great city ought to provide." Writes Poet David McCord: "The high-ceilinged rooms, the little balconies, alcoves, nooks and angles all suggest sanctuary, escape, creature comfort. The reader, the scholar, the browser, the borrower is king...
...bends over to kiss me. I don't want him to I think of case histories, devoted wives who turned kleptomaniac two days month, the mother who threw her baby out into the snow. It was in Reader's Digest, she had a hormone disturbance, love is all chemical I want it to he over, this long abrasive competitions for the role of victim. It's like an Elizabethan tragedy or a horror movie. I know which ones will be killed...
...expected because when bombs dropped, they were just as lethal to journalists as they were to their intended targets. But the possibility that members of the press could have been intimidated to write stories favorable to the PLO is another matter altogether. Such knowledge is essential to a reader--sitting safely at home--in his or her evaluation of what should ideally be an objective news story...
...answered. Nor is it possible to tell a threatened journalist what course of action to take Fleeing means giving in to terrorism. Staying means living in constant fear. Yet the press does have the responsibility to report the conditions under which journalists work. Armed with all the facts, a reader may approach a story with a healthy dose of skepticism. But that is better than the outright disbelief that more incidents like the kidnapping cover up would no doubt engender...
...late adolescence two strains appeared. Young Lowell abandoned the purely physical world of football and fighting and became a fanatical reader, of Job, of Shakespeare and then of any poetry he could find. He also began to exhibit signs of manic depression. Both aspects showed in his pursuit of a poetic career; in 1937 he journeyed to Vanderbilt University outside Nashville to visit his idol, Allen Tate. He pitched a tent on the poet's lawn for three months...