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Tag Archives: Earl Long

Old-Time Stumpworming.

08-Sep-12

Pilkhua I highly recommend watching the Bill Clinton Democratic Convention speech (video with transcript here) – it is one of the most impressively American speeches I have ever seen – thoroughly and completely in the American tradition of political oratory, folky, homespun, pragmatism and idealism seamlessly blended, wandering, an afternoon’s entertainment in a sleepy little town, […]

A.J. Liebling and the Gret Stet.

08-Apr-09

http://debashishbanerji.com/reviews/india-and-europe-by-wilhelm-halbfass/ In writing there are only two things, matter and treatment.  In Abbott Joseph Liebling’s The Earl of Louisiana we have matter so interesting that it still holds the attention fifty years later in itself, and treatment so virtuosic one is tempted to proclaim Liebling a literary figure rather than a journalist. As far as matter […]