<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post7326892432525502228..comments</id><updated>2011-07-13T16:13:18.645-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Comments on Silliman&#39;s Blog: </title><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7326892432525502228/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/02/james-schevill-1920-2009.html'/><link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>8</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4880629102143747356</id><published>2009-02-18T09:19:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-02-18T09:19:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>My old landscape design prof said once that if you...</title><summary type='text'>My old landscape design prof said once that if you looked at eucalyptus trees on very hot days, you could see how they turned their leaves at an angle (sideways), to avoid facing the light directly.  Do plants have &quot;muscles&quot;?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7326892432525502228/comments/default/4880629102143747356'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7326892432525502228/comments/default/4880629102143747356'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/02/james-schevill-1920-2009.html?showComment=1234966740000#c4880629102143747356' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/02/james-schevill-1920-2009.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7326892432525502228' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7326892432525502228' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 18, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7270854760887672211</id><published>2009-02-17T15:00:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-02-17T15:00:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron, May I ask your source on the Lew Welch &quot;Motow...</title><summary type='text'>Ron, &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;May I ask your source on the Lew Welch &quot;Motown&quot; &lt;I&gt;The Waste Land&lt;/I&gt;?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;As I commented here back on May 11, 2007, the half-dozen or so people who remark about this in the &lt;I&gt;Hey Lew&lt;/I&gt; book of remembrances say that Welch&#39;s take on the Eliot poem was a la &quot;Billy Eckstine.&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Now I admit that Eckstine -- African-American, baritone, balladeer -- is dag close if not the</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7326892432525502228/comments/default/7270854760887672211'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7326892432525502228/comments/default/7270854760887672211'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/02/james-schevill-1920-2009.html?showComment=1234900800000#c7270854760887672211' title=''/><author><name>Steven Fama</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/13733977161680651117</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/02/james-schevill-1920-2009.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7326892432525502228' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7326892432525502228' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-862679579"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 17, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-973994857402878888</id><published>2009-02-17T09:29:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-02-17T09:29:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Hi Ed,funny you should mention the street sounds.....</title><summary type='text'>Hi Ed,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;funny you should mention the street sounds... I was thinking of ee Cummings&#39; &quot;In Just-&lt;BR/&gt;Spring&quot; this morning... (This poem definitely got me headed toward the poetry swamp)&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Don&#39;t know if I&#39;m related to Glenn the piano man.  There are a lot of Goulds out there.  (My son Alex was something of a prodigy as a child, though - he could handle those Bach things Gould famously</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7326892432525502228/comments/default/973994857402878888'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7326892432525502228/comments/default/973994857402878888'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/02/james-schevill-1920-2009.html?showComment=1234880940000#c973994857402878888' title=''/><author><name>Henry Gould</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/06763188178644726622</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/3390/124/320/268619/PA100027.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/02/james-schevill-1920-2009.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7326892432525502228' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7326892432525502228' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1295597322"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 17, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-9201396962825126202</id><published>2009-02-16T07:49:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-02-16T07:49:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Lew Welch did a Motown version of The Waste Land t...</title><summary type='text'>Lew Welch did a Motown version of &lt;I&gt;The Waste Land&lt;/I&gt; that was fabulous.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7326892432525502228/comments/default/9201396962825126202'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7326892432525502228/comments/default/9201396962825126202'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/02/james-schevill-1920-2009.html?showComment=1234788540000#c9201396962825126202' title=''/><author><name>Ron</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09250950725876683923</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/silliman/silliman2a.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/02/james-schevill-1920-2009.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7326892432525502228' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7326892432525502228' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 16, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1552443168974668871</id><published>2009-02-16T04:27:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-02-16T04:27:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>the &quot;best&quot; poets [of their day-every-one-of-them- ...</title><summary type='text'>the &quot;best&quot; poets [of their day&lt;BR/&gt;-every-one-of-them-&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt; Song and Dance Men&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;and, most of them  I betcha grew up listening&lt;BR/&gt;.to the trolly&#39;s-clang-n-clack &lt;BR/&gt;         all &quot;street&quot; sounds/rhythms  on and off the stage and in their poems/////their music////   &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;when one is &quot;on the street&quot;  no room for pretense.. especially in The City.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;hey  Mr. Gould  speaking </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7326892432525502228/comments/default/1552443168974668871'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7326892432525502228/comments/default/1552443168974668871'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/02/james-schevill-1920-2009.html?showComment=1234776420000#c1552443168974668871' title=''/><author><name>Ed Baker</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_SpwtdDR0utk/R3Owpv1OTyI/AAAAAAAAAAM/5uapZyaJmtY/S220/Ed++by+Evie+Baker'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/02/james-schevill-1920-2009.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7326892432525502228' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7326892432525502228' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-771816173"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 16, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4723085154994752723</id><published>2009-02-16T00:17:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-02-16T00:17:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Hi Ed,My mother told me once that she &amp;amp; my fat...</title><summary type='text'>Hi Ed,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;My mother told me once that she &amp;amp; my father once had dinner with Schevill in St. Paul, MN, by chance.  He was involved in the music scene.  My uncle, Jim Ravlin (a friend, as it happens, of James Merrill) was living in NYC at the time with a woman from Vienna, Agnes Eisenberg (her father was a violinist in Austria, I don&amp;#39;t know if he survived the Holocaust) - who ran a </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7326892432525502228/comments/default/4723085154994752723'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7326892432525502228/comments/default/4723085154994752723'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/02/james-schevill-1920-2009.html?showComment=1234761420000#c4723085154994752723' title=''/><author><name>Henry Gould</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/06763188178644726622</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/3390/124/320/268619/PA100027.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/02/james-schevill-1920-2009.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7326892432525502228' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7326892432525502228' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1295597322"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 16, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7354167701075911451</id><published>2009-02-15T22:09:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-02-15T22:09:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>thanks Henry&#39;I have friends who went to Brown when...</title><summary type='text'>thanks Henry&#39;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I have friends who went to Brown when James was there...&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;these days, I don&#39;t expect very much &#39;membrances of those of/in The 70&#39;s&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;you know  also Anais Nin was a EB and your friend  James was unpretentious... imagine &quot;that&quot;!</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7326892432525502228/comments/default/7354167701075911451'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7326892432525502228/comments/default/7354167701075911451'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/02/james-schevill-1920-2009.html?showComment=1234753740000#c7354167701075911451' title=''/><author><name>Ed Baker</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_SpwtdDR0utk/R3Owpv1OTyI/AAAAAAAAAAM/5uapZyaJmtY/S220/Ed++by+Evie+Baker'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/02/james-schevill-1920-2009.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7326892432525502228' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7326892432525502228' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-771816173"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 15, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4098867745910947282</id><published>2009-02-15T21:12:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-02-15T21:12:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>This hurts.  Schevill was one of my teachers &amp;amp;...</title><summary type='text'>This hurts.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Schevill was one of my teachers &amp;amp; friends at Brown, as an undergraduate, &amp;amp; after.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;People should definitely click on Ron&amp;#39;s link to his last name.  Thank you for that, Ron - fascinating.  (It reminds me of his close friend Edwin Honig&amp;#39;s tales of being dogged for decades by the keystone-cops FBI.)&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;He was the most kindly, humble &amp;amp; genial </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7326892432525502228/comments/default/4098867745910947282'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7326892432525502228/comments/default/4098867745910947282'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/02/james-schevill-1920-2009.html?showComment=1234750320000#c4098867745910947282' title=''/><author><name>Henry Gould</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/06763188178644726622</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/3390/124/320/268619/PA100027.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/02/james-schevill-1920-2009.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7326892432525502228' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7326892432525502228' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1295597322"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 15, 2009"/></entry></feed>