[W]hen George Plimpton [acting on behalf of the NEA] paid Aram Saroyan $1,500 for a poem consisting of a single misspelled word "lighght," an Iowa congressional aide dared to ask the dilettantish Plimpton what the poem meant. "You are from the Midwest. You are culturally deprived, so you would not understand it anyway," replied the New Yorker Plimpton.
Bill Kauffman, Look Homeward, America, p. 58.
