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Word: bookshelfã (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2001-2001
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...book would look handsome on a coffee table or a bookshelf??€”and that is, alas, exactly where it belongs, unread and perhaps even unopened. Listening to Rudenstine speak publicly was always a painful experience; with his oddly halting delivery, he often seemed like he was desperately fighting off a speech impediment. But one always held out a faint hope that the words themselves were packed with meaning, obscured by Rudenstine’s colorless manner of speech but there nonetheless and only waiting for a diligent critic, a Boswell to Rudenstine’s Samuel Johnson, to reveal...

Author: By Ross G. Douthat, | Title: Pointing Us Nowhere | 11/19/2001 | See Source »

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