Susan S. Bean, in Parabola (Fall 19941,656 Broadway, New York, N.Y. 10012.In the familiar photographs, Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948) is clad in only a loin- cloth and, sometimes, a chaddar (shawl). The clothes did not exactly make the man, but they certainly helped to make the man the Mahatma (great soul), writes Bean, chief cu- rator of the Peabody Museum in Salem, Massachusetts.Gandhi's choice of garb, she says, came only after much experience, some of it un- pleasant, with the social and...
of Louis Edward Sissman has not lacked admirers, among whom perhaps the most dedicated has been Peter Davi- son, his editor at what was then Atlantic-Little Brown and him- self a poet. Others include Hilton Kramer, James Dickey, Howard Moss, and S. J. Perelman, who enthusiastically declared: "Unquestionably a major poet and a man of dazzling talent. Sissman's range of evocation, his wit, and his sensitivity would clearly have appealed to T. S. Eliot, whose influence is manifest."Perelman...
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