Or what we think we know. Trying to predict what others will think, or why they will act as they will, is dangerous business. The academic world traditionally has been suspicious of commercial success. It also has long held an unwarranted and grossly exaggerated respect for iconoclasm, particularly when waged from the political left. So academia tends to hold mixed feelings about Dottie.
Most words emerge from a hazy mist suddenly, there they are, out of nowhere.
The first lunch at what later was called the Round Table probably occurred eighty years ago this month, in June 1919. I cannot think of any not even Lindbergh, not any more. Perhaps the Stock Market crash. Endurance is its own testament. Ultimately, the Round Table was just a parochial literary coterie, yet somehow it has survived in the mass public consciousness for more than three-quarters of a century.