December 2009
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“For all its undoubted value, I think this concept - what Keats calls...”
– Eagleton in Eagleton and Beaumont, op. cit., page 122 (modified slightly to work as a quote).
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“Literature comes to be important partly because it allows us vicarious textual...”
– Terry Eagleton in Eagleton and Matthew Beaumont, The Task of the Critic, Verso, 2009, page 122
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Horton Foote
Over the past few days, I’ve read two plays by Horton Foote, both exceptionally bleak. A cycle of his plays, rewritten by Foote and his daughter Hallie, is playing in NYC, to great reviews. These two fall somewhere between Greek tragedy and melodrama. The year after I graduated from Washington University, I spent most an academic year working at the Mercantile Library in St. Louis, which was...
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“Americans on the coasts are more willing than those in the hinterlands to...”
– Emma Duncan, “Getting warmer,” Economist, 5-11 December 2009, special report, page 14.
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“Clean energy is a huge opportunity for China. It will become the largest...”
– Hu Augang, an economist at Tsinghua University, quoted in Emma Duncan, “Getting warmer,” Economist, 5-11 December 2009, page 16 (of a special report, US edition).
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“Limbaugh’s style is a mixture of bluster, clowning and poison, in...”
– David Bromwich, “Obama’s Delusion,” London Review of Books, 22 October 2009, page 10