<< 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. >>
That was back when insensitive Alex was prone to insulting stoats, weasels and eels.
MD