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Robert Frost has a foot in both camps. New Englanders who pride themselves on their conservative shrewdness and rock-bound individualism think they recognize him as one of themselves; and poets know he is a poet. His prosiest lines are often lifted into verse by some piece of sly wit or canny wisdom, and at its best his poetry is as strong and simple as his Vermont landscape...
...authentic but attractive. Old Man Roper, unregenerate patriarch, had fathered a rascally and shiftless brood. Thomas lived off in the swamp by himself, distilling shinny and drinking what he did not have to sell. Bart had not been improved by going to the War. He got a half-wit girl in trouble, killed her father and pinned the murder on her. Only decent ones in the family were Rachel, who took good care of Old Man Roper and her pining sisters, and Cully, her half-nephew, who liked engines, planned to be a mechanic...
TIME is my favorite magazine. It puts life and color into the dullest news topics. Its rapier thrusts puncture shams, deflate politicians; it illuminates the darkest corners of the world with its wit and wisdom. But that is not what I started out to say. In a review of the recent Kentucky Derby [TIME, May 11], which you generously and correctly described as "the nation's greatest horse race," you state that hundreds of celebrities and 70,000 other enthusiasts "made their way to shabby old Churchill Downs...
...gadfly of successive Republican Administrations. Equipped with a deep, mellow drawl, a sharp Southern wit, the tall, loose-jointed Mississippian drew a laugh, scored a hit almost every time he rose to tease, tweak, twit and torment the party in power...
Author Heiden divulges the secret that Hitler once wore a pointed beard, gives a contemporary instance of his platform wit. One of a hostile audience shouted: "Take your hands out of your pockets!" To this Hitler shouted back: "Gentlemen, I am not one of those who talk with their hands!" According to Heiden, Hitler in his salad days practiced making an impression on people by always arriving late, saying nothing at first, suddenly launching into an oration, then taking an unceremonious leave. Heiden makes what he can (which is not much) of Hitler's devotion to his niece...