>The Nation - 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.