Why I’d Like To Read ‘Moby-Dick’ Again
Happily, I’ve read Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick twice in my life – once in college (Xavier University, Class of ’71) and once on a trip to Nantucket four years later, during which I walked...
View ArticleCorrections o’ the Day (NYT Kurt Andersen Edition)
From Tuesday’s New York Times Corrections Let’s start small: FRONT PAGE The Letter From Paris article on Sept. 21 about the efforts of Kristen Beddard, an American, to introduce kale to the French...
View ArticleWhen a Nation Forgets Its Own Clichés . . .
. . . well that’s just sad. As you splendid readers might – or might not – recall, the hardworking staff has diligently recorded mangled phrases in the media over the past few years. All too often,...
View ArticleRound Midnight at the Global Worldwide Headquarters (God Bless Linda Ronstadt...
In 1967 the hardyearning staff, like any red-blooded American male, had a knee-buckling crush on Linda Ronstadt. Exhibit All-You-Need-to-Know: And it just got crushier from there. So it was...
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