Cockburn on Howe

[Doug Henwood]

The Nation's millennial issue has a selection of letters to the 
editors. Somehow this reminder of AC's greatness slipped in:


>April 17, 1989
>COCKBURN REPLIES
>
>...About Irving Howe, maybe "slimier" was wrong. I thought about it 
>for a while. "Stoat-like," "squalid," "weasel-brained" were all 
>ascriptions jostling forward, but in the end I thought "slimy" 
>properly evoked his eel-like slipperiness....
>
>         Alexander Cockburn
>         Aptos, Calif.