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Susan Sontag, author and activist, dies at 71
AP ^ | 12/28/4

Posted on 12/28/2004 10:01:32 AM PST by SmithL

NEW YORK -- Susan Sontag, the author, activist and self-defined "zealot of seriousness" whose voracious mind and provocative prose made her a leading intellectual of the past half century, died Tuesday. She was 71.

Sontag died Tuesday morning, officials at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center said. She had been treated for breast cancer in the 1970s.

Sontag called herself a "besotted aesthete," an "obsessed moralist" and a "zealot of seriousness."

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


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To: justshutupandtakeit
That is the same excuse used by the left to justify the homicide bombers in Israel. "They're fighting with the ONLY weapons they have... their BODIES (sob, tear...)".

Ever hear someone on the left discussing the courage of the Nazis?

61 posted on 12/28/2004 10:37:36 AM PST by weegee (WE FOUGHT ZOGBYISM November 2, 2004 - 60 Million Voters versus 60 Minutes - BUSH WINS!!!)
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To: RushCrush

Don't jump to conclusions over the word "activist". In this case it was a leftist activist. Activist has started to mean leftist, but if we want to change things we have to be activists... for the right.


62 posted on 12/28/2004 10:39:20 AM PST by Jay777
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To: Rodney King
No problem. It's hard to keep track, as unfortunately the list keeps growing.
63 posted on 12/28/2004 10:39:22 AM PST by Admin Moderator
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
"The white raceLiberalism is the cancer of human historyWestern Civilization"
64 posted on 12/28/2004 10:39:36 AM PST by weegee (WE FOUGHT ZOGBYISM November 2, 2004 - 60 Million Voters versus 60 Minutes - BUSH WINS!!!)
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To: pissant
my 12 year old newspaper carrier is a MENSA compared to Moyers
LOL!
65 posted on 12/28/2004 10:40:49 AM PST by samtheman
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To: Jay777

I agree, but I'd like to have a new term used instead. Like "citizen"


66 posted on 12/28/2004 10:41:06 AM PST by RushCrush ("Of the four wars in my lifetime none came about because the U.S. was too strong." Reagan)
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To: mgc1122

Seriously, the only thing I remembered about her was that Sideshow Bob mentioned her name in a Simpsons episode.


68 posted on 12/28/2004 10:43:27 AM PST by dfwgator (It's sad that the news media treats Michael Jackson better than our military.)
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To: weegee
Ever hear someone on the left discussing the courage of the Nazis?

They already are: Partners in Hate: Noam Chomsky and the Holocaust Deniers

69 posted on 12/28/2004 10:43:49 AM PST by Loyalist (Please visit this fine lady's blog: fiatmihi.blogspot.com)
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To: SmithL

As much as I wished she could have kept her mouth shut, my condolences go out to her family at this time.


70 posted on 12/28/2004 10:44:12 AM PST by Houmatt (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1309023/posts)
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To: Mad Mammoth

Perhaps Susan Santog, Snotrag, Sontag... will live on as Ann Landers has through the voice of other writers using the pseudonym.

Paging Jason Blair...


71 posted on 12/28/2004 10:45:05 AM PST by weegee (WE FOUGHT ZOGBYISM November 2, 2004 - 60 Million Voters versus 60 Minutes - BUSH WINS!!!)
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To: KC_Conspirator
"America's mother of modernism/postmodernism" wrote some good ones: Styles of Radical Will. Strong writer.
72 posted on 12/28/2004 10:45:16 AM PST by RightWhale (Destroy the dark; restore the light)
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To: SmithL

Is this bad news?


73 posted on 12/28/2004 10:45:21 AM PST by RichardW
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To: Grampa Dave
#67 removed, because of Condé Nast complaint.

If you want to repost as a link only, with no text from the article, that'll be all right.

74 posted on 12/28/2004 10:45:59 AM PST by Admin Moderator
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To: RichardW
Is this bad news?

It is if you are Susan Sontag.

75 posted on 12/28/2004 10:46:18 AM PST by johniegrad
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To: dfwgator
The fact is, you don't have to be able to read to enjoy the Springfield Review of Books. Just look at these amusing caricatures of Gore Vidal and Susan Sontag. -- Sideshow Bob

LOL!

76 posted on 12/28/2004 10:46:34 AM PST by mgc1122
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To: mgc1122

No matter what Kelsey Grammar does, to me he will always be Sideshow Bob.


77 posted on 12/28/2004 10:47:42 AM PST by dfwgator (It's sad that the news media treats Michael Jackson better than our military.)
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To: johniegrad
Is this bad news?
It is if you are Susan Sontag.


Satanic Maitre'D:Welcome Ms Sontag, your table is waiting! Joining you at your table is the most debonair and disillusioned Mohammed Atta, who will show you personally what the cult of Islam thinks of enlightened Western liberal women such as yourself. Mr. Atta? Your main course is coming up next!

Sontag:I'm getting a bad feeling about this...
78 posted on 12/28/2004 10:50:52 AM PST by Mad Mammoth
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To: weegee

Anything is possible, but most counterfeiters would be exposed immediately due to lack of insight and literary expertise.


79 posted on 12/28/2004 10:51:05 AM PST by RightWhale (Destroy the dark; restore the light)
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To: Admin Moderator
#67 removed, because of Condé Nast complaint. "If you want to repost as a link only, with no text from the article, that'll be all right.' Thanks the link below give us all the insight we need about Sontag re her comments after 9/11.

http://www.newyorker.com/THE_TALK_OF_THE_TOWN/CONTENT/?010924ta_talk_wtc

80 posted on 12/28/2004 10:51:17 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Rummy Phobia is the new mental disorder of the left. It is similiar to Hate GW Syndrome!)
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