Doug Henwood wrote:
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> rhisiart at earthlink.net wrote:
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> >and if the thought appeals to you, you might want to ask them why
> >they give coop a false aura of legitimacy by allowing him to have an
> >emal address at a prestigious journal like the nation.
>
> Maybe because he's a contributing editor, a frequent contributor,
> hosts their radio show, and is quite liked by most of the staff? Even
> if he doesn't pass your purity test.
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>
Purity test? It's not his politics. It's his banal vulgarity. He reminds me of that fellow, I forget his name, who wrote the Caine Mutiny. Just plain bad vulgar prose. And you claim to be a formalist and an aesthete. It is on aesthetic grounds that one ought to tell Cooper to find a useful task to do someplace. Perhaps he could teach junior high arithemetic without embarassing his friends.
Carrol