[3] She graduated from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie in 1937, after which she began her career as a reporter for the New York Journal and spent several years as a subtitle writer for MGM films.
She was particularly remembered for The Love Song of R. Milhous Nixon, in which she borrowed from T. S. Eliot's poem with a similar title to lampoon the President, at the height of the 1973 Watergate scandal in 1973.
And in good hands, words can be made to jump, molt, wiggle, shrink, flash, collide, fight, strut, and turn themselves inside out or upside down.
[4] Lamport's obituary in The New York Times mentioned William Safire's description of her as "'the leading muse of the Deprefixers,' which he defined as poets who achieve effects by dropping prefixes, for lines like 'Men often pursue in suitable style/ The imical girl with the scrutable smile.
In 2001 a set of her papers, including play scripts, articles, verse and other writings, correspondence and teaching materials, was donated to the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University.