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“I am always humbled by the infinite ingenuity of the Lord, who can make a red barn cast a blue shadow.” —E.B. White, One Man's Meat. During the years I.
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Very soon, my wife and I will be spending a few days in Maine. The last time I was in Maine, I was in college:. I believe we cooked that lobster right where we stood, on the beach, in a tin bucket. Our impending trip makes me feel especially close to E. They also put me in mind of Justice William O.

Douglas of the U. Supreme Court. But they share a great deal in common. Most obviously, they share a love of Maine. As for Justice Douglas, as I noted in an October post , he was a nature writer of real skill—and one of his greatest sources of inspiration was Mount Katahdin. Then came a long period of absence. But the pull of Katahdin, like that of an old love, was always strong. The memories of it were especially bright every May, when the ice went out and the squaretails started jumping—every June, when the salmon-fly hatch was on.

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Fiddlehead ferns—partridgeberries—alpine azalea with tiny cerise flowers … all of these—and more—were Katahdin. Animals in literature , Charlotte's Web , E. Why is it significant that Stuart Little is a mouse—I mean, why is it significant from the perspective of American legal history? What does Justice William O.

“Anyone who writes down to children is simply wasting his time. You have to write up, not down.”

White and international law—or, to put it another way, about the popular liberal legal imagination at midcentury. The line is potent mixture of action, threat, and conflicted loyalty, and it came to White only after many revisions. I am very glad to say that Mr. What the first sentence also does is instantly establish empathy with animals. Wilbur, Charlotte, Templeton the rat , the geese, all become our moral equals without fuss.

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He spent time amidst them each summer when his family retreated to Maine. Not surprisingly, then, animals populated his prose, for both children and adults. Anatomy of Peace , E. In my previous post , I discussed how E. You may not know the name Marvin Hamlisch , but you more than likely have heard his music, especially if you enjoy Hollywood or Broadway. Hamlisch passed away just ten months ago, at the age of Not many people today have heard of Emery Reves.

In the s, however, he was well known as an intellectual leader in the movement for global government. One of the few traces of his past fame in the United States can be found in Dallas. In , the Hungarian-born Reves took up with socialite and fashion model Wendy Russell, a Texan, whom he eventually married. Occasionally I get irate letters from people who find a boo-boo in it, but many more from people who find it useful. The book is used not only in institutions of learning, but also in business places.

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Bosses give it to their secretaries. I guess someone in the office has to know how to write English.

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About the only one who had the ability to uphold that good advice was E lwyn B rooks White himself. Of his name, Mr. White said: ''I never liked Elwyn. My mother just hung it on me because she'd run out of names. I was her sixth child. He acquired the name at Cornell, after its first president, Andrew D. The nickname was bestowed there on students named White. White was born in Mount Vernon, N. His parents had moved there from Brooklyn, he later surmised, ''because Mount Vernon sounded tonier.

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Recalling his early tenure at the magazine, he said, ''The cast of characters in those days was as shifty as the characters in a floating poker game. Every week the magazine teetered on the edge of financial ruin. It was chaos but it was enjoyable. James Thurber and I shared a sort of elongated closet.

Harold Ross fought with Raoul Fleischmann and erected an impenetrable barrier between the advertising department and the editorial department. It was known as the Ross Barrier. A friend who visited Mr. White at home in Maine several years ago found him in good spirits. He looked like his sentences: straightforward, yet elegant. That way no one will be able to find it except by sailboat and using a chart.

So many letters from children are addressed to Mr. Part of his form letter goes:. No, they are imaginary tales, containing fantastic characters and events. In real life, a family doesn't have a child who looks like a mouse; in real life, a spider doesn't spin words in her web. In real life, a swan doesn't blow a trumpet. But real life is only one kind of life -there is also the life of the imagination.

And although my stories are imaginary, I like to think that there is some truth in them, too - truth about the way people and animals feel and think and act. After having lived in Manhattan in the 's and 's, Mr. White and his wife, Katharine, sought privacy in Maine. They bought the roomy old farmhouse in and lived in it almost continuously beginning in Their lives were linked with The New Yorker, where they first met in He said that Katharine Sergeant Angell was considered ''the intellectual soul'' of the magazine, serving as fiction editor and encouraging many gifted writers.

They were married in White later said, ''I soon realized that I had made no mistake in my choice of a wife.

I was helping her pack an overnight bag one afternoon when she said, 'Put in some tooth twine. They were married for 48 years, and Mr. White never quite got over her death in When her book, ''Onward and Upward in the Garden,'' based on her New Yorker pieces, came out in , with an introduction by him, he wrote, ''Life without Katharine is no good for me.

Until illness slowed him down, Mr. White usually rose at 6 in the morning, started the wood fire in the black four-lidded kitchen stove, checked the action in the birdfeeder dangling outside the living-room window of the 19th-century farmhouse and peered with a Maineman's eyes at the broken clouds.

When the sun broke through without advance notice, the pencils, pens and typewriters the portable one down at the boathouse, the upright Underwood in the workroom went into action. White turned out some of the most moral, living prose produced by hand in the country. Even in speaking, Mr. White seemed to have the right phrase at hand.

Fiddling with a thick log in the fireplace, he made it flare up quickly - more a countryman's than an author's fire. White liked to sip a vermouth cassis before lunch. Walking with a visitor over to the general store, he took a bottle of orange juice to the counter. Russell Wiggins. Now and then, he would contribute a letter or essay to the paper. Driving on a few miles, he stopped at the boatyard run by his son, Joel, a naval architect from M. In a cavernous boatshed, he climbed aboard the foot sloop Martha, named after his granddaughter, which his son built for him.

He sailed these waters, with friends and family, most of his life.