Mr. Leo, gosh…you, like, sound like one of the News Havens kicking around, like, The New York Times. But let’s all of us stop the vitriol about Liz Bumiller and ceteris (for a moment).
I do not come from Manhattan, so I have never had a chance to, you know, speak movie French in hushed tones to a sales clerk (and part-time MFA student at New School) or sit down and read your column in the Village Voice and U.S. News.
Imagine my surprise: “A woman’s private part,” Mr. Leo? I have heard that even the Atlantic Monthly will let you write “cunt” or whichever catchword Mailer and O’Rourke are up to by now.
Or the “anti-Semitic roadshow”? Larry Summers has been working that support-for-Palestine equals anti-Semitism bit for nearly four years at Harvard. As a result, the Corporation and Fellows are about two more controversies away from finding Rudenstine in the ash heap, pulling Vest out of the Charles, or calling Simmons up from the minor leagues to replace him.
It took me years just to get weaned off Alex Beam and various maple tree products at breakfast, so your style may just need some getting used to, I suppose.
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