Posts Tagged with "Trow"

Newsbreaks for Wednesday

Wednesday, July 18, 2007

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Audio version is here. Archeologists in Ventura, CA, have discovered a pair of 130-year-old outhouses. They’re calling it a treasure-trove. So far they’ve unearthed a pistol, a knife, whiskey flasks, two dog skulls, and a set of false teeth. All I can say is, if that’s “treasure,” you guys would make really bad pirates. Of [...]

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Beautiful Trow quote:

Sunday, December 10, 2006

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From George W.S. Trow, via an essay about him in The New York Observer: “America is a glory of a country, and a glorious idea for a country, and we would be saved now by the love of it if the idea of the love of it hadn’t been strip-mined and left ugly.” About sums [...]

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Nice appreciation of GWS Trow in Slate

Friday, December 8, 2006

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Stephen Metcalfe sums up writer George W.S. Trow and his major work, Within the Context of No Context. It’s a reasonably good read for people interested in such things. The scion of a prosperous New York printing family, Trow was a prime mover in the revivication that turned the Harvard Lampoon from a snotty finals-club [...]

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