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E.B. White, Dark & Lite

- Abstract

When E.B. White died, at the age of eighty-six, on October 1, 1985, his obituarist in the New York Times referred to him as “one of the nation’s most precious literary resources,” and the newspaper backed up the statement by running a six-column-across ob



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Joseph Epstein is a regular contributor to COMMENTARY.