Cockburn on Howe

Pahtoo at aol.com Pahtoo at aol.com
Wed Dec 29 16:30:33 PST 1999


In a message dated 12/29/99 4:21:19 PM Pacific Standard Time, dhenwood at panix.com writes:

<< 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



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