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...Mencken once described Pittsburgh as "...appalling desolation. Here was the very heart of industrial America, the center of its most lucrative and characteristic activity, the boast and pride of the richest and grandest nation ever seen on earth--and here was a scene so dreadfully hideous, so intolerably bleak and forlorn that it reduced the whole aspiration of man to a macabre and depressing joke...
...modern art--because it existed, he said, solely to perpetuate art criticism. Without criticism, the art was nothing. Except ugly. Wolfe did have a point, but he stretched it to ludicrous proportions to prove himself correct. He crossed over the line to mockery, and the result was more Mencken (bad Mencken, that is) than Mailer (good Mailer...
...budding middle class -- the essayist has enjoyed constant if somewhat ambiguous employment as a member of the working press. Plying his trade under a variety of guises that have ranged from the timeless street scenes of Dickens 'Sketches by Boz to the out-and-out polemics of H.L. Mencken, the essayist has approached the inherent conflicting interests of his craft with a full larder of whimsical irony. Immersed in the wage-earning and ephemeral world of four-alarm fires and political intrigue, the true essayist has had to continually suppress or blunt what E.B. White calls "the childish belief that...
...less celebrated colleagues. While the little-shots settled for free beer and sandwiches at a press lounge funded by the railroad industry lobby, the Globe contingent was enjoying a final $300 expense account lunch at Luchow's (chosen because it was a favorite hangout of Convention Chronicler H.L. Mencken...
...thrice-weekly column syndicated to more than 100 newspapers. Rooney, 60, covers the commonplace, leaving wars and statecraft to more conventional colleagues. "Andy is our Russell Baker, our Art Buchwald," says Don Hewitt, executive producer of 60 Minutes. "He is a cross between Charles Kuralt and H.L. Mencken...