Posted on 01/27/2009 7:26:36 AM PST by big black dog
Good duty.
Yikes, bell bottoms, shorty-shorts and long tube socks, I’m glad those days are gone.
I bet the chick wasn’t a W.M. either.
You didn’t think Catch 22 was funny?
We need vouchers. Not because it will make education “fair” but because it will allow parents who give a d@mn to take their children from the classrooms of these shining jewels of colossal ignorance and send them to better schools and teachers.
Barack Obama is [president] of the United States, and novels that use the ‘N-word’ repeatedly need to go,”
Let’s start with hip hop, shall we?
YOU, Sir, win the “spot the hypocrisy” prize for the week. Excellent observation!
Colonel, USAFR
btw, I HATED Catch 22. Bored me to death!
It’s a source of a lot of the ‘hip’ comedy that came after it. Everything from George Carlin to SNL. What didn’t you like about Catcher? It’s so precise in capturing an immature troubled teen.
Meh - maybe because I was an immature, troubled teen at the time...that, and I hated the smugness of my English teacher. I’m slowly getting around to re-reading some of the stuff to which I should have paid attention back then - maybe that’ll make the list.
Colonel, USAFR
I just recently reread it and it’s wonderful. Feels very contemporary but it really captures NYC in the late 1940s.
If John Foley were a fish he would be a big dumb bass.
Teach Swahili! Get rid of those dead white men authors! Just a bunch of cracka slave owners
Follow his lead? I doubt even Obama would express support for this.
‘nother one.
They’re working overtime this week.
Never mind! This is an old article.
So much for Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man, or Richard Wright’s Native Son, or Jame’s Baldwin’s Go Tell It On the Mountain.
Count me in as one who thought “To Kill a Mockingbird” is overrated, and that the movie version is even worse (sappy, white liberal tripe with bad acting).
‘Native Son’ really is very crude. James Baldwin called it an ‘artless manifesto’.
I’ve read Ralph Ellison’s critique of Native Son. His point, which seems like a good one, is that Wright’s view of the world would preclude the existence of a writer such as Wright. But if one considers that art is portraying truths in a beautiful way the question becomes “did Wright accomplish this?” For example no one would argue that Michaelangelo did not portray the ugly truth of damnation beautifully in his “Last Judgement” on the alter wall of the Sistine Chapel. How does one portray the ugly truths of poor, ignorant, fatherless inner city life beautifully?
The idea that Art about Ugliness has to be ugly falls prey to the Imitative Fallacy. Wright was just a crude writer.
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