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...response to the "high-ranking official" who anonymously attacked Professor Nesson for his involvement in my appeal, I wish to say that Charlie has given generously of his talent, time and energy and I am most grateful. It is true that Charlie has an unusually low tolerance for cant, double-talk and hypocrisy. But it is precisely these eccentricities that make him a good friend and an invaluable asset to the University. PETER BERKOWITZ Jan. 12, 1999 The writer is associate professor of government 13/01/1999 Editorial 10 Letters Tenure System Needs Review To the editors...
Alvy soon has enough of the professor's pretentious cant and triumphantly produces the real-life McLuhan, who conveniently was waiting behind a nearby signboard. The lines McLuhan delivers to the academic are priceless...
...romantic fantasies and crusty musings of Don Rigoberto, an antisocial anarchist and cultural conservative who sounds like another overheated Austrian, the Belle Epoque critic Karl Kraus. Or perhaps Vargas Llosa's alter-Egon, used to seduce the reader. Rigoberto coos about the fleshy pleasures and fulminates against vulgarity and cant. He dismisses all art described as "brilliant" and rejects all ideologies as "leveling forms of oppression that are generally worse than the despotisms against which they rebelled...
...BERLITZ FOR SQUARES Readers baffled by hipster lingo, whether it be Hollywood tough-guy speak or Haight-Ashbury hippie cant, know they can count on TIME for a translation...
...bomb Iraq, while others demanded that this time the U.S. do the job properly and get rid of Saddam Hussein. The prospect of war managed to anger the political left and right simultaneously. And the replies they got from the nation's top foreign-policy officials were limp, cant-filled and suspiciously incomplete. Columbus mirrored the very same problem President Bill Clinton faces in trying to persuade most of America's allies, the Arab world and marginally friendly countries like Russia and China. He hasn't done any better with them than his advisers did in the heartland...