09-07-2010, 10:36 AM
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Join Date: May 2009
Location: Inside the Beltway
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What a life! You have to love this:
"With great ingenuity, he created Kayak's archly cruel rejection slips: Victorian engravings depicting a beheading, or a mountain climber slipping into a crevasse, with a brush-off caption appended."
and this:
"During the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in 1957, the House Committee on Un-American Activities summoned him to testify in San Francisco, where he delivered what may well have been his finest performance.
When asked to state his profession, he answered: "I am a gardener. I do underground work on plants." He then refused to answer questions about membership in the Communist Party, "on the grounds that this hearing is a big bore and waste of the public's money."
The director of the Shakespeare Festival demoted him to spear-carrying roles."
And especially this:
"The long list of poets and writers who found a home in his pages included W.S. Merwin, Anne Sexton, Robert Bly, Margaret Atwood and Hayden Carruth."
Everywhere we turn is loss.
Thanks,
Bill
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