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Dear Mr. President:I send greetings from the other side and no, I don’t mean the other side of the aisle. I refer to the place where old politicians go to make amends for their sins.Apart from our shared Catholicism and affinity for sunglasses, I suspect you and I don’t have a lot in common. Actua. ....
A strange turn occurs toward the middle of Frederick Seidel’s 2009 Paris Review interview. The poet, whom Adam Kirsch once deemed the best in the United States, describes himself as coming late to an appreciation of New York School poets James Schuyler and Frank O’Hara. Until this point in the conversation, Seidel’s distinctive sensibility snapped into place commensurate with his biography. His patrician vocabulary and profoundly conservative sense of rhyme and meter gestured toward his Harvard education and his Sorbonne classes at midcentury. Visits to Ezra Pound in 1953 (who at the time was institutionalized and warding off a treason charge for his radio broadcasts in support of Hitler and Italian fascism during World War II) and T.S. Eliot (a fellow St. Louis native who, through talent and a penchant for self-invention, acted out an Anglophile’s version of what a poet should be) taught Seidel that achievement didn’t lie solely in a moralist’s idea of virtue and ....
clay s. check point charlie. on october 22nd, when alane lightener was trying to go to easter be lin to watch the opera he was stopped demanding additional identification which he wouldn t show. clay was notified. he sent a squad of soldiers. they escorted him in and out. american soldiers could go through that check point and east germans had no authority to stop them. in fact, within 24 hours the east germans were no longer at the check point. there were just soviets there manning it. they were not going to take a chance. now a week earlier, clay had sent kennedy a cable, which i saw. and he said our problem is that the sovietings are letting the east jer mbas harass us and do things while they themselves stay in the background. so they bet up on us but they themselves appear to take no responsibility. the next time this happens i m going to confront them and i m going to force the soviets to show their hand. and clay saw this as the ideal opportunity. after alan left ....
so what comes to mind is an extraordinary individual capable of great good and and who created helped create the vietnam tragedy. it s a very interesting pairing of success and failure in this man. c-span: why did you want to do this? guest: oh, i don t know. i had done a lot of defense writing as a reporter for science magazine and as a free-lance writer. and i had done a lot of reporting on arms control. and i came at it, in a sense, through the mathematics analytic side. i also came very much to realize that my whole generation, the baby boomer generation, really were affected and scarred by vietnam. there are 8.2 million people who served in the armed forces between 1961 and 1975, and all of those people have had some contact and some impact from the vietnam tragedy in our experience. so actually, although i may have started out of professional interest and rather intellectual interest, as i went on, i got very pulled in by the need to try to understand this t ....