"Biography seemed to be no more than a high-spirited game of yanking out shirttails and setting fire to them."
— Bernard DeVoto

January 1, 1970

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Describing the imitations of Lytton Strachey's scandalous Eminent Victorians in the '20s and '30s. Reported in TIME, vol. 114, no. 1 (July 2, 1979), p. 83