Assorted prose.

Description

Parodies, humorous sketches, book reviews, and autobiographical writing. The American man : what of him? --Anywhere is where you hang you hat --What is a rhyme? --Drinking from a cup made cinchy --On the sidewalk --Why Robert Frost should receive the Nobel Prize --Confessions of a wild bore --The unread book route --Alphonse Peintre --Mr. Ex-resident --Central Park --No dodo --Voices in the Biltmore --Our own Baedeker --Postal complaints --Old and precious --Spatial remarks --Dinosaur egg --Upright carpentry --Crush vs. whip --Métro gate --Cancelled --Morality play --Obfuscating coverage --Bryant Park --John Marquand --Two heroes --Doomsday, Mass. --Grandma Moses --Spring rain --Eisenhower's eloquence --Mostly glass --Three documents --Free bee-hours --Beer can --Modern art --The assassination --T.S. Eliot --The dogwood tree : a boyhood --The lucid eye in silver town --My uncle's death --Outing : a family anecdote --Mea culpa : a travel note --Eclipse --Poetry from Downtroddendom --Snow from a dead sky --Franny and Zooey --Credos and curios --Beerbohm and others --Rhyming Max --No use talking --Stuffed fox --Honest horn --Faith in search of understanding --Tillich --More love in the western world --A foreword for young readers --Creatures of the air --Between a wedding and a funeral --How How it is was --Grandmaster Nabokov.