The younger literary generation has come on the run because it’s cold out there. The sobriety, and lack of coltishness, constitute their qualifications for reporting fashions or sports; or teaching “Creative Writing” on another campus. They bespeak a readiness to be cowed in return for a stall in the Establishment barn; at whatever cost in originality.

Preſent we meet thy ſneaking treacherous ſmiles; The harmleſs abſent ſtill thy ſneer reviles; Such as in thee all parts ſuperior find, The ſneer that marks the fool and knave combin'd; When melting pity would afford relief The ruthleſs ſneer that insult adds to grief.

Spend the time killing things and there's a bonus for each hit - but only for fatalities notched up since the start of your current life.

Behrends has chiseled the official Senate bust of the disgraced Vice President Spiro T. Agnew; molded a bronze bust of Andrew Johnson, who became president after Abraham Lincoln ’s assassination, for the Tennessee state capitol; and created a statue of Strom Thurmond, in midstroll, for the lawn of the South Carolina State House in Columbia.