TNR Online | Carvin' the Bird by Leon Wieseltier (On the Ken Burns PBS doc.)

[Justin Schwartz]

There is a nice line in the piece, "You cannot have the mystic chords of 
memory unless you have the chords." I agree with most of what LW has to say 
about the Burns thing. But I think that the series will promote a reneweed 
interest in jazz, always good. LW's attack on EPT was genuinely vile. But I 
am biased: EPT is a personal hero. --jks


>
>    Heh, the last time I fwded. some Wieseltier (the slam of Cornel West) I
>got some heat!
>(Leon's slam of E.P. Thompson [with a blurb by Henry K.] in his book on
>nuclear strategy and the Freeze, was a lowpoint in his stuff. At the same
>time, Thompson was being attacked by types from the Soviet Peace Council,
>along comes Wieseltier to accuse , Thompson of pro-Soviet symps!)
>
>http://www.thenewrepublic.com/012201/wieseltier012201.html
>
>Michael Pugliese
>

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