<?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.post8138728951939469575..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/3738579/8138728951939469575/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/photo-by-tom-raworth-we-are-no-doubt.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>13</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4022919689593795289</id><published>2007-05-08T12:20:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-05-08T12:20:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I think we need to draw distinctions between the a...</title><summary type='text'>I think we need to draw distinctions between the aristocrasy of the arts and the aristocrasy of the moneyed classes.  &quot;Respectability&quot; may adhere to any class, even the poor.  As a phenomenon, you could look into the genteel poor class of the South, which has persisted for over 100 years.  Ellwyn Brooks White came from what we would now consider a comfortable upper-middle-class background.  White</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8138728951939469575/comments/default/4022919689593795289'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8138728951939469575/comments/default/4022919689593795289'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/photo-by-tom-raworth-we-are-no-doubt.html?showComment=1178641200000#c4022919689593795289' 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/2007/05/photo-by-tom-raworth-we-are-no-doubt.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8138728951939469575' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8138728951939469575' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 08, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6002428968094884321</id><published>2007-05-07T11:41:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-05-07T11:41:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Distinction between class background and class all...</title><summary type='text'>Distinction between class background and class alleigance (conscious or not), as well as between culture associated with a class (by its members or nonmembers) and class as purely economic.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8138728951939469575/comments/default/6002428968094884321'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8138728951939469575/comments/default/6002428968094884321'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/photo-by-tom-raworth-we-are-no-doubt.html?showComment=1178552460000#c6002428968094884321' title=''/><author><name>andy gricevich</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04367834692026653431</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='http://www.princemyshkins.com/images/yeller.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/photo-by-tom-raworth-we-are-no-doubt.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8138728951939469575' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8138728951939469575' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1668048852"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 07, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-519999923082465148</id><published>2007-05-06T14:36:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-05-06T14:36:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Curtis, I suppose I should admire your tenacity, a...</title><summary type='text'>Curtis, I suppose I should admire your tenacity, and granted I don’t know the exact net worth of the Angell/White clan at the precise moment when Roger acted vicious towards Bob, but here’s a NY Times article:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;“A Boston Brahmin, product of Miss Winsor&#39;s School and later Bryn Mawr, (Katherine White) was, according to her husband and many others, &quot;a creative editor in every way,&quot; finding </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8138728951939469575/comments/default/519999923082465148'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8138728951939469575/comments/default/519999923082465148'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/photo-by-tom-raworth-we-are-no-doubt.html?showComment=1178476560000#c519999923082465148' title=''/><author><name>Ian Keenan</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16596558654735506132</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/2007/05/photo-by-tom-raworth-we-are-no-doubt.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8138728951939469575' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8138728951939469575' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 06, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5472356827522718364</id><published>2007-05-06T10:14:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-05-06T10:14:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>The &quot;stock&quot; was nothing more than an annual stipen...</title><summary type='text'>The &quot;stock&quot; was nothing more than an annual stipend that continued after the Whites both left permanently for the Maine saltwater farm in the 1940&#39;s.  &quot;Old Boston family&quot; does not mean &quot;rich.&quot;  I got this cross referenced from several New Yorker writers over the years, you can take it to the bank.  It&#39;s public knowledge.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8138728951939469575/comments/default/5472356827522718364'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8138728951939469575/comments/default/5472356827522718364'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/photo-by-tom-raworth-we-are-no-doubt.html?showComment=1178460840000#c5472356827522718364' 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/2007/05/photo-by-tom-raworth-we-are-no-doubt.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8138728951939469575' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8138728951939469575' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 06, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2456374787324049129</id><published>2007-05-05T22:05:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-05-05T22:05:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Brendan Gill on Angell&#39;s mother Katherine Angell W...</title><summary type='text'>Brendan Gill on Angell&#39;s mother Katherine Angell White: ‘As a member of an old Boston family..’ (p. 289) ‘(Katherine White) and (EB) White were owners of a good deal of (The New Yorker) stock..’ (p. 291) &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;(Gill, Here at the New Yorker, Random House, 1975)</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8138728951939469575/comments/default/2456374787324049129'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8138728951939469575/comments/default/2456374787324049129'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/photo-by-tom-raworth-we-are-no-doubt.html?showComment=1178417100000#c2456374787324049129' title=''/><author><name>Ian Keenan</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16596558654735506132</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/2007/05/photo-by-tom-raworth-we-are-no-doubt.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8138728951939469575' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8138728951939469575' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 05, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1261192798571732221</id><published>2007-05-05T10:12:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-05-05T10:12:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Hear ye, hear ye!  Going to Harvard college on a s...</title><summary type='text'>Hear ye, hear ye!  Going to Harvard college on a scholarship does not mean you&#39;re old money, or that you&#39;re a &quot;part of the Eastern establishment.&quot;  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Ian, Roger&#39;s Mother joined The New Yorker early in its life, and spent several decades editing fiction, along with William Maxwell.  Despite what everyone has always seemed to imagine, TNY didn&#39;t make any of its editors or contributors rich.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8138728951939469575/comments/default/1261192798571732221'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8138728951939469575/comments/default/1261192798571732221'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/photo-by-tom-raworth-we-are-no-doubt.html?showComment=1178374320000#c1261192798571732221' 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/2007/05/photo-by-tom-raworth-we-are-no-doubt.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8138728951939469575' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8138728951939469575' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 05, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8253459388291267991</id><published>2007-05-04T20:42:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-05-04T20:42:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Seconding CA&#39;s second comment.</title><summary type='text'>Seconding CA&#39;s second comment.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8138728951939469575/comments/default/8253459388291267991'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8138728951939469575/comments/default/8253459388291267991'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/photo-by-tom-raworth-we-are-no-doubt.html?showComment=1178325720000#c8253459388291267991' title=''/><author><name>andy gricevich</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04367834692026653431</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='http://www.princemyshkins.com/images/yeller.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/photo-by-tom-raworth-we-are-no-doubt.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8138728951939469575' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8138728951939469575' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1668048852"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 04, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-9197159029169071528</id><published>2007-05-04T14:13:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-05-04T14:13:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Corso was penniless and had no family at all and h...</title><summary type='text'>Corso was penniless and had no family at all and had been in prison for years.  He simply went and asked Harvard teachers if he could sit in their classes. By and large they said yes.  McLeish said Corso was the best student he&#39;d ever had.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8138728951939469575/comments/default/9197159029169071528'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8138728951939469575/comments/default/9197159029169071528'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/photo-by-tom-raworth-we-are-no-doubt.html?showComment=1178302380000#c9197159029169071528' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</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/2007/05/photo-by-tom-raworth-we-are-no-doubt.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8138728951939469575' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8138728951939469575' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 04, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3953835478908163055</id><published>2007-05-04T10:48:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-05-04T10:48:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Corso went to Harvard.</title><summary type='text'>Corso went to Harvard.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8138728951939469575/comments/default/3953835478908163055'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8138728951939469575/comments/default/3953835478908163055'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/photo-by-tom-raworth-we-are-no-doubt.html?showComment=1178290080000#c3953835478908163055' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</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/2007/05/photo-by-tom-raworth-we-are-no-doubt.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8138728951939469575' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8138728951939469575' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 04, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2602918158808723254</id><published>2007-05-04T10:38:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-05-04T10:38:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Curtis, Roger Angell’s mother was the New Yorker e...</title><summary type='text'>Curtis, Roger Angell’s mother was the New Yorker editor and his father was a NY lawyer, though E.B. White became his stepfather after his mother remarried.  Maybe you and Ron have a different definition of what constitutes ‘old money.’  I used to read a lot of sports magazines when I was a teenager, but never understood why everyone talked about how great Roger Angell was.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I’d been </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8138728951939469575/comments/default/2602918158808723254'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8138728951939469575/comments/default/2602918158808723254'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/photo-by-tom-raworth-we-are-no-doubt.html?showComment=1178289480000#c2602918158808723254' title=''/><author><name>Ian Keenan</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16596558654735506132</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/2007/05/photo-by-tom-raworth-we-are-no-doubt.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8138728951939469575' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8138728951939469575' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 04, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8936592383916089637</id><published>2007-05-04T09:47:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-05-04T09:47:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Oh, and Ron once again you&#39;re one of the few poets...</title><summary type='text'>Oh, and Ron once again you&#39;re one of the few poets WILLING to discuss class!  Something that makes me tune in over and over!  How vital it is to discuss class is something like almost everything vital, it&#39;s ignored.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;That marvelous memoir BLACK MOUNTAIN DAYS by Michael Rumaker would agree with such comments.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;And while Anne Sexton did have money she was not educated like her peers</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8138728951939469575/comments/default/8936592383916089637'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8138728951939469575/comments/default/8936592383916089637'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/photo-by-tom-raworth-we-are-no-doubt.html?showComment=1178286420000#c8936592383916089637' title=''/><author><name>poet CAConrad</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/13148611902772898013</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='http://newlangtonarts.org/bimages/conrad.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/photo-by-tom-raworth-we-are-no-doubt.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8138728951939469575' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8138728951939469575' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-691277454"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 04, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2546298593946861467</id><published>2007-05-04T09:30:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-05-04T09:30:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Whoever writes the next Creeley bio should make da...</title><summary type='text'>Whoever writes the next Creeley bio should make damn sure they go down to North Carolina and interview Jonathan Williams.  His stories of Creeley are honest but Loving, at least what I&#39;ve heard.  Jonathan who met everyone, literally met everyone, seems to be ignored, and that&#39;s a terrible cultural loss.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;My friend Janet Mason took a course at Naropa some years ago (10 maybe?), and one of </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8138728951939469575/comments/default/2546298593946861467'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8138728951939469575/comments/default/2546298593946861467'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/photo-by-tom-raworth-we-are-no-doubt.html?showComment=1178285400000#c2546298593946861467' title=''/><author><name>poet CAConrad</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/13148611902772898013</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='http://newlangtonarts.org/bimages/conrad.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/photo-by-tom-raworth-we-are-no-doubt.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8138728951939469575' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8138728951939469575' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-691277454"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 04, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2659296300020579790</id><published>2007-05-04T09:15:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-05-04T09:15:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron: this business about Roger Angell coming from ...</title><summary type='text'>Ron: this business about Roger Angell coming from &quot;old money&quot; is balderdash.  You don&#39;t know his bio.  The funny thing about your misconception is that going to Harvard &quot;meant&quot; money, even though most of the &quot;big name&quot; writers of the so-called Eastern Establishment belonged to the same fraying lace-curtain culture as the decaying down-east middle-class.  And the choice of writing as a career </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8138728951939469575/comments/default/2659296300020579790'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8138728951939469575/comments/default/2659296300020579790'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/photo-by-tom-raworth-we-are-no-doubt.html?showComment=1178284500000#c2659296300020579790' 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/2007/05/photo-by-tom-raworth-we-are-no-doubt.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8138728951939469575' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8138728951939469575' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 04, 2007"/></entry></feed>