My favorite line from one of these is from Piero Sraffa's obit; the author was reporting a conversation with Sraffa, politically an unreconstructed Stalinist, before Sir Anthony Blunt was identified as The Fourth Man (along with Burgess, Philby, and McLean). I paraphrase from memory. "Were you the Fourth man, Piero?" He made an inimitably Italian gesture, a sort of a shrug. "I forget which number I was."
--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>
> On Nov 9, 2006, at 2:34 PM, Jesse Lemisch wrote:
>
> > What a kvetchy announcement, Doug! Can we locate
> the url for her
> > magnificent
> > debunking of Tom Frank in Stanley's new journal,
> Situations(?). Is
> > that
> > article what's eating you, Doug?
>
> Kvetchy? I thought it was honest. I don't like obits
> that overlook
> the unpleasant bits. But when she was good, she was
> really good. And
> that piece on Tom Frank was Willis at her best, I
> thought. (The URL
> is
>
<http://ojs.gc.cuny.edu/index.php/situations/article/view/30/26>,
>
> by the way. I'm not sure what you mean by "eting"
> me, since I've
> lodged plenty of criticisms of What's The Matter
> With Kansas over the
> last year or so.) That piece, and the Beginning to
> See the Light
> essay collection, which I thought was terrific. I
> loved the essay on
> "women's music."
>
> Doug
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