NP Hiter, Mussolini, Hearst

[jporter]

> From: Doug Millison <millison at online-journalist.com>

> http://www.nybooks.com/nyrev/WWWfeatdisplay.cgi?20000810004R
> A Boy's Life
> RUSSELL BAKER
> (review of _The Chief: The Life of William Randolph
> Hearst_by David Nasaw)
> 
> "[....] Here, for example, is a priceless piece
> of comedy in which Hitler and Mussolini
> show how to get under Hearst's skin.

            {snip}

Hmmmm... Hitler, Hearst, Kane, Rosebud, The Kenosha Kid... a fine kettle of
fish (a pot to piscean?). The nasal telegraph is picking up something
funny/foul, not to mention rotten.

jody 

g.s.:

And while y'all are browsing the e-version of The New York Review of Books,
you might try this article (if only to clear your palate), by John Leonard,
from the issue preceeding the one cited by Doug:

http://www.nybooks.com/nyrev/WWWarchdisplay.cgi?20000720004R

It's a review of Elizabeth Hardwick's _Melville Herman_. And it's good. I
have never read a word of Elizabeth Hardwick, but apparently at 83 years,
she's some sort of Grand Dame of criticism. And besides, here's how Leonard
ends his review:

"So superior are these sentences to the churlishness that passes
 for criticism elsewhere in our culture‹the exorcism, the
 vampire bite, the vanity production, the body-snatching and the
 sperm-sucking by pomo aliens‹so generous and wise, that
 they seem to belong to an entirely different realm of discourse,
 where the liberal arts meet something like transubstantiation.
 There will be no dagger at the end of this paragraph. She sends
 up kites; she catches lightning."  [John Leonard, "The Wise Woman and the
Whale" quoted from above reference]