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RANDOM SENSE AND NONSENSE

 

Pandemic compromises the fun of drinking either 1945 Chateau Mouton Rothschild 750 Ml or Macallan 60 Year Old whiskey in a plastic cup.

 

Snail-mail lives.

 

Some militant women have expressed concern that Black's Law Dictionary has not defined WOMANSLAUGHTER.

 

"Fragile Spreadnecks" is a stereotype of recent vintage.

 

Today the necessity of necessity is getting the best of  the worst of us.

 

The news is saturated with Northern penthouse trash. Good Southern trailer trash is off the radar.

 

Wright Thompson's "The Barn" (The Atlantic, September 2021, pp. 68-79) provokes anxiety about the current status of August 28, 1955.

 

The NEH 'Dialogues on the Experience of War program supports the study and discussion of important humanities sources about war, in the belief these sources can help veterans and civilians think more deeply about the issues raised by war and military service."  Shirley Hanshaw's book Re-Membering and Surviving: African American Fiction of the Vietnam War (Michigan State UP, 2021) is one of these sources.  Will NEH follow-up with "Dialogues on the Experience of Peace"?  War is an easy path. Peace is a rocky road to walk.

 

We have many under-appreciated cultural critics in the United States of America.  When did you last read any meaningful discussions about the works of Richard A. Long, James Snead, Carolyn Fowler, Elliott Butler-evans, Addison Gayle, Richard Barksdale, Darwin Turner, and Marian Musgrave?  When?

It often seems that under-appreciation is a cherished virtue in the Occidental academic world.

 

Jerry W.  Ward, Jr.           August 10, 2021

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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