Urban People, Of Course, Are Terribly Scared

The Early Commentators Who Put Down The Pre-presidential Roosevelt As An Empty-headed Young Lightweight, All Ambition And No Talent, Now Seem Comically Wrong To A Modern Book-reading, Movie-going, Television-watching, Legend-loving American Public Conditioned To Think Of Him As One Of The Presidential Giants On The Order Of Washington And Lincoln.

Anticipating That Most Poetry Will Be Worse Than Carrying Heavy Luggage Through O'hare Airport, The Public, To Its Loss, Reads Very Little Of It.

The Lobbies Of The New Hotels And The Pan American Building Exhale A Chill As From The Unopened Pharaonic Tombs... And In Their Marble Labyrinths There Is An Evil Presence That Hates Warmth And Sunlight.

Except For Politics, No Business Is Scrutinized More Exhaustively Than Journalism.

The American Press Has The Blues. Too Many Authorities Have Assured It That Its Days Are Numbered, Too Many Good Newspapers Are In Ruins.