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“path to glory at times seems to have been lighted by a pocket flashlight.” Nice line.
Coverage of the O.J. Simpson trail has produced some first-rate writing. 1 especially liked a comment by Anna Quindlen of The New York Times:
“But what about the rights of the nearly decapitated Nicole, who, instead of hot-and-cold running lawyers like the well-heeled O.J., sometimes seems to have no one but her family to defend her?...The jury pool may already have been polluted by some creeping sense that Nicole had a little more fun than a mother of two should, that she was too much spandex and too little apron.”
One of the South’s most gifted writers was the late Jim Dance of The Miami Herald. The Good Stuff file disgorged a column he wrote in 1982 when a reader complained that he used too many big words. Jim took no sass from anyone:
“Thank you, Mr. Riso. Perhaps you missed my earlier policy statement wherein 1 explained that this is a joint-effort column, designed to be just as hard to read as it is hard to write. This seems only fair to me. Why should 1 look up all the words in the dictionary in the first place if in the second place you are just laid back in your E-Z Boy Recliner waiting for me to serve up two-syllable snacks that lose their full flavor when they are rendered down from their original full-strength succulence?”
In the ephemeral world of newspapering, that was English as it should be writ. Good stuff! Send me more of it.
Copyright 1995
Universal Press Syndicate
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