[lbo-talk] The Candidates, Seen From the Classroom

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Sep 24 12:24:52 PDT 2004


Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:


>The "F" in John F. Kerry stands for Failure in Rhetoric.
>
>The Candidates, Seen From the Classroom
>By STANLEY FISH
>Published: September 24, 2004
>CHICAGO

This is a really good piece. I especially like this:


>If you can't explain an idea or a policy plainly in one or two
>sentences, it's not yours; and if it's not yours, no one you speak
>to will be persuaded of it, or even know what it is, or (and this is
>the real point) know what you are.

I knew a guy in grad school who said of dissertations, if you take more than 200 pages, you haven't mastered your material. Similar point.

Doug



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