Howe baiting

John Halle john.halle at yale.edu
Thu Dec 30 13:15:31 PST 1999



> 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



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