Posted on 02/17/2005 7:50:53 AM PST by Pokey78
Steyn ping!
Steyn should try to emulate me and be less well read. That way he would have only read Miller's "Death of Salesman" and could agree uncritically with all the critical acclaim.
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And there are few surer get-rich-quick schemes than a savage indictment of the cheap hucksterism at the heart of the American Dream.
Even if you’re disappointed that a Steyn article is more theater review than Eurinal bashing, that line alone is worth the price of admission.
>> "He wasn’t amiable enough to be an amiable dunce" <<
SMACK!!!!!
Incisive, well-written and right. As always. Go Steyn!
I just want to know why people read stuff like Death of a Salesman.
There's enough gloom in the world through the news without adding to it through literature.
I don't want to read or listen to a gloomy story. If I'm giving my time to something, it has to be optimistic and in some way positive.
Why all this focus on gloom and tragedy in literature -- and in literature classes?
I can't think of something surer to turn off students than gloom.
It sure turned me off when I was required to study literature.
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Because it is beautifully written and heart wrenching. A bit cornball in parts, but it also really lets good actors show their stuff.
Yeah, it's depressing, but my life is so damn happy, I need a bit of maudlin gloom to wipe that idiotic smile off my face now and then.
Mark Steyn was on the Laura Ingraham radio show last week, which was the first time I had ever heard his voice. What a funny and sharp guy he is, even off the cuff like that.
Loved hearing his voice, which is similar to Christopher Hitchens', just not quite as deep. I knew he was a Brit, but somehow didn't expect the rather cultivated accent he has. In fact, it's a very cultivated accent, now that I think of it.
I hope she has him on again. He should go on other programs too, maybe he has and I've just missed him till now.
BWAHAHAHAHA!
If I have to read "plays," give me Oscar Wilde.
Actually, he is a Canadian.
Weird huh?
Cheers,
knews hound
Another great Steyn! And I know that's redundant. Production of his plays will dwindle with time. Over-rated doesn't begin to say it!
It is rare that I have anything critical to say about Steyn, but he missed the mark here. The relevant analogy is not whether there were witches in NY and communists in Romania. The relevent analogy is that there were not witches in MA, and there were Communists in Washington.
Well, I thought I heard once that he was Canadian, but this accent was so British. I didn't think Canadians had such a pronounced British sound. Guess I'm wrong.
That's a theme Michael Moore profitably employed.
Luckily, not all American hucksters are self-hating, self-worshipping narcissists.
His genius was to give his fellow lefties what’s become their most cherished article of faith — that any kind of urgent national defence is, by definition, paranoid and hysterical. It was untrue in the Fifties and it’s untrue today. Indeed, the hysteria about hysteria — the ‘criminalisation’ of ‘dissent’ — is far more hysterical than the hysteria about Reds.
Right on, as usual, Mr. Steyn. Anti-Americanism always sells well with the "hate America" crowd on both our coasts, so Mr. Miller, who parlayed his so-so talent and early hits into a cash cow, was quite a shrewd salesman.
Denny Crane: "There are two places to find the truth. First God and then Fox News."
I always get Normal Lear and Arthur Miller confused. I have trouble keeping all of the "entertainer" commies seperated.
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