Howe baiting

[John Halle]

> Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 19:13:07 -0500
> From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
> Subject: Cockburn on Howe
> 
> 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.
> 

Yes. But do you disagree?

John