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Benjamin DeMott

Nonfiction

Summer 1962

The General, the Poet, and the Inquisition

By Benjamin DeMott

I’ve had it.                 Familiar idiom: post-1940 “Tired”                 Pearl Bailey song hit: 1945 Nixon or Kennedy: Does It Make Ainy Difference?                 Title of political pamphlet: 1960 “Why not,” we wondered as […]