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ESSAY: Garrison Keillor on the exquisite anxiety of parenthood...
...LETTERS NOTEBOOK MILESTONES APPRECIATION: Julia Child ESSAY: Keillor on Kafka...
ESSAY: Garrison Keillor finds truth on a family vacation...
...about the reform of the House of Lords or something, but the truth is I am terribly interested in what happened in my childhood, there being fewer and fewer people left who remember it, and with siblings, your minds meld and you piece together the story of the big Keillor family meeting at our house in 1947--no need for footnotes or apology, you just sit down in Les Deux Magots cafe and hash it out, as French people of great elegance and purposefulness stride past, one of whom reminds you of your dad, a gray fedora on his head...
...Keillor described people in public life as "well-mannered and respectful." Well-mannered and respectful politicians? Hardly. Sarcasm and ridicule are the manners most often employed. In fact, Keillor's Essay is little more than disdain and hardly an example of civility and good breeding. There's nothing factual in his piece, only ambiguous allegations of how "all" Minnesotans feel about former Governor Ventura. BRIAN TRACEY Fort Wayne...