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Lowell did not return to Harvard. Instead he followed Ransom to Kenyon College, where he formed lasting friendships with Peter Taylor and Randall Jarrell. From that point onward, his life becomes a turbulent, often sensational tale. He married writer Jean Stafford; after a miserable six years they split. For the remainder of his days. Lowell fell in and out of love with various women--his 20-year marriage to Elizabeth Hardwick was stable only in its endurance...
...went through periods of creative barrenness that sometimes lasted up to a year. It was when he became manic, or "high" as his friends described it, that he would have to spend time in mental institutions--then he was irrational, a danger to his friends and lovers. Except for Stafford, the women he married--Hardwick and, late in his life, Lady Caroline Blackwood--demonstrated an almost supernatural capacity to stick with Lowell through his bouts with mental illness. It was only when Lowell became involved with Blackwood that his marriage to Hardwick ended...
...points or more. If the Democrats had picked up about 43,000 votes in five states (Virginia, Rhode Island, Missouri, Nevada, Vermont), they would have taken control of the Senate. Republican moderates, such as John Chafee of Rhode Island, Lowell Weicker of Connecticut, John Danforth of Missouri and Robert Stafford of Vermont, barely withstood strong challenges. The fact that they finally won will ensure the survival of the party's moderate wing; the fact that they came so close to losing will cause colleagues to assert their independence of a President whose policies proved a burden at the polls...
...with 60% or better, while four others attracted between 57% and 59% of the vote. But only one of the eleven G.O.P. incumbents, John Heinz of Pennsylvania, drew 60%. Indeed, four moderate Republicans, Lowell Weicker of Connecticut, John Danforth of Missouri, John Chafee of Rhode Island and Robert Stafford of Vermont, squeaked by with a mere...
...after breaking Jean Stafford's nose in an automobile accident, Lowell, 23, married her. Then during a squabble, he broke her nose again, with his fist. For a while the strange marriage worked. She wrote her bestseller Boston Adventure. He converted from Episcopalianism to Roman Catholicism and labored at his poetry as if salvation depended on it. At 29 he published his first book of poems, entitled Lord Weary's Castle, a quirky, indelible mix of Boston locales and Old Testament theology. A Pulitzer Prize followed...