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...least for a few minutes. "It is, by now a scandal beyond irony that thanks to the energetic litigation of 'civil liberties' fanatics, pornographers enjoy expansive First Amendment protection while first-graders in a Nativity play are said to violate First Amendment values." His lighter pieces often leave the reader, upon completion, intellectually sated...
Similarly the use of historical example and comparison between seemingly unrelated topics can leave the reader more bewildered than enlightened; his column comparing toothpaste with the Fed is a case in point...
James Wright's final, posthumous collection of poems. This Journey, takes both poet and reader on journey through a lifetime as it slips back into the poet's mind-and anything is fair game here, from Wright's recollections of his childhood, or a vulgarity he sees scrawled on a gravestone, to his later experiences with the super-natural and the exotic to what he has learned about Leonardo da Vinci during his life. Often ethereal, sometimes convoluted and tortured, the images crawl or sour quietly off the page, so that Wright doesn't just make you taste a grape...
...really understand why a walk is most times as good as a hit or why the Baltimore Orioles have won more games than any other team in the past 20 years. A rambling compendium of assorted stories and analyses spaced out over a mythical season, the book invites its reader on a guided tour of the game, with an eye towards shedding light on the subtleties and intricacies that repeat themselves over the course of all seasons. A tour of the national pastime through Boswell's eyes...
...death of art; those writers who joined forces in the 1930s against the Nazis produced few lasting works, while the loners, like Jean-Paul Sartre or the anti-semitic Louis-Ferdinand Celine, continued to create masterworks. It is a disturbing correlation that Lottman serves up without comment for his reader to ponder...