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| About Lillian Hellman (1905-1984): "I once said in an interview that every word she [Hellman] writes is a lie, including 'the' and 'and.'"
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from Paul Johnson, Intellectuals, Harper & Row Publishers, New York, 1988; p. 302. Added y20819 |
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| According to Johnson, McCarthy, an anti-Stalin leftist, had in mind Stalinist Hellman's statements about John Dos Passos, Spain, and a 1949 Waldorf conference (and perhaps about Tallulah Bankhead). Hellman sued McCarthy, spawning legal bills that the wealthy Hellman could afford and McCarthy could not. Nevertheless, the case brought McCarthy support from friends and info on other Hellman scandals, notably Hellman's autobiographical Pentimento, recounting her supposed rescue of an anti-Nazi activist "Julia" (later made into a successful film titled "Julia"). It turned out, however, that Hellman's heroism was entirely fictional, plagiarized from the unpublished life story of Muriel Gardiner. [Samuel McCracken, "Julia and Other Fictions by Lillian Hellman," Commentary, June 1984]. Hellman's death on 3 July 1984 made the lawsuit moot. | ||
"Cain, Where is Abel thy brother?"
--recycled by L.D. Trotsky in 1936, mocking Stalin for the judicial murder of Abel Yenukidze, an old-time revolutionary associate. |
I believe I read it in David King, The Commissar Vanishes, p #? Added y20819 |
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| About G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936): "Mr. Chesterton has thoughts, but I see no evidence that he thinks."
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James Wood, "Roman Holiday: [A Review of] Gary Wills, Why I Am a Catholic," printed in "The New Republic," 19 August 2002, p. 40 Added y20913 |
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"There are two things wrong with you. Everything you say is wrong, and everything you do is wrong."
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William Rodgers, Think: A Biography of the Watsons and IBM, Stein and Day, New York, 1969; p. 123. Added 20060827 |
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"sh*t in a silk stocking"
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(widely available on Internet) Added 20070620 |
French: "La merde dans un bas de soie." |
"as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by boiling the shadow of a pigeon that had starved to death"
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Lincoln's rebuttal, 6th Lincoln-Douglas debate, Quincy Illinois, 13 Oct 1858 As of 2007/09, the Lincoln Home National Historical Site had posted transcripts of the seven Lincoln-Dougles debates, eg: http://www.nps.gov/archive/liho/debate6.htm Added 20070905 |
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| Douglas enunciated the "popular sovereignty" doctrine at the second Lincoln-Douglas debate, Freeport Illinois, 27 August 1858. | ||