The president thinks that the US Navy should move the islands (the superstructures) on aircraft carriers farther back, apparently so that they would look better to him. It seems to me unlikely that this will happen.Robert Lowell's father was an officer of the US Navy, as were assorted family connections. Not all, perhaps, had the keenest judgment. One of the senior Lowell's Annapolis classmates said of a Lowell cousin that hewas really plotting to put aircraft carriers in square sails to stem the tide of our declining Yankee seamanship("31 Revere Street", collected in Life Studies.) One doubts the cousin had...