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Article: Corinna Marsh RIP. (author) (obituary)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- November 19, 1990
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TART WAS the word for Corinna Marsh, tart and outspoken. Conservatives she regarded, en principe, as beyond the pale: war mongering, self-interested, pitiless capitalists to a man. Within her beat a strong old-time compassionate socialist heart. But in the shabby two-room apartment in a rundown Manhattan hotel in which she lived in near penury for more than forty years, one was apt to meet a conservative or two, each of whose misguided political views she would excuse because her taste in people was more eclectic than her taste in politics. For the last 25 years of her life the major outlet for the light verse she excelled in was that bastion of everything she despised, ...