Wolfe

[Paul Mackin]

On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, David Morris wrote:

> 
> >From: JBFRAME at aol.com
> >
> >Wolfe should be read for amusement, for clever word-play -- certainly not 
> >for ideas.  The man is a damned reactionary.
> 
> I completely agree with you.  Unfortunately he's able to convince an 
> audience that he's really smart, and that he really believes what he's 
> writing about.  I don't believe either about him.  Pseudo-controversy with a 
> smug smirk on the side is how I'd call his game.


Another guy in this category and even worse, IMHO, is George
Will. Browsing in the local bookstore I picked up a popularly writen 
volume by a woman who is a linguistics professor (in one of the California
schools I think). She really lights into the problematics of George's
text and she says it would take volumes more to really develop the point.


		P.