He went to Yale
To the Editors:
Regarding the review of the new biography of
John Alden Carpenter in
your December issue: It comes through vividly to the mind’s eye.
There’s grizzled old Charles Ives whacking Terry Teachout’s shoulder
with his yellowed Herald Tribune, angrily shouting: “Ya Goddamn
prevaricator! Why I didn’t even go to that Harvard
University.”
William Thomson
Pasadena, Calif.
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This article originally appeared in The New Criterion, Volume 13 Number 6, on page 80
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