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Remember back in junior high when your teacher gave you alternatives to writing academic exercises and instead let you format papers in fictional dialogues between famous people? Imagine what Cicero would have said to Karl Marx if they ever met on the street. Write a conversation between Dante and Magellan about sailing around the wold or under it, and so on. So along comes Steve Martin who went to school before teachers were this nice, and he decides to write a fictional meeting between two of the 20th century's most formative figures, Pablo Picasso and Albert Einstein, not knowing...
...York Post, the New York Review of Books, the New Republic and the current home of his column, New York Newsday, Kempton's book calls forth a cavalcade of heroes and scoundrels of the past 50 years and more -- among them Benito Mussolini, F.D.R., Richard Nixon, Bessie Smith, Karl Marx, Goya, Roy Cohn, Cassius Clay and one Stella Valenza, a housewife on trial for "hiring three mechanics to rid her of her husband, Felice." To Kempton, the insignificant deserves as much attention as the momentous; he gives the auctioning of Marilyn Monroe's address book the same careful scrutiny...
...myself, I know that without Mary Mahony and Arthur Marx, the two people responsible for man-aging my office (and, to the extent possible, me), my life would be in shambles...
...Mahony and Mr. Marx bring to this multitude of tasks an array of professional skills, knowledge, tact and, most importantly, sound judgment...
...included in his book. More specifically, West is concerned with linguistic and rhetorical practices which create worldwide conceptions of identity. He challenges his reader to refuse blind acceptance of racial categories. Before classifying individuals or groups of individuals as "Black" or "White" or "Hispanic," we should "go back to Marx and Weber and Durkheim and Du Bois and Simone de Beauvoir and other historical sociologists who are concerned about providing an account of...rhetorical enactments." In other words, we must question the origins of certain racial and racist constructions before we condemn/define/evaluate people in accordance with them. West is interested...