I'm rather good at guessing a writer's politics from his
style. I'll bet a six-pack that Brown professor of classics, William F.
Wyatt, is a conservative snob .( If I'm wrong -no great loss ! )
" Writing is important ", he tells us , but it is not a " trivial
pursuit " . His column today " Writing's 'grinding poverty ' "( Nov.6 )
is a quintessential " trivial pursuit " for the average reader of your
newspaper. If more of your staff begin to write like HIM, you'll have
very few people reading your newspaper -even on College Hill.
Mr. Wyatt -an insufferable pedant - scrutinizes articles on
subjects of which he knows little, to discover " cliches ". He is, for
example, certain that the phrase " enlightened majority " is indeed a
a cliche in whatever context it appears.
The ENLIGHTENED MAJORITY was not a cliche in Tuesday's election !
Mr. Wyatt clearly does not write for the hoi polloi , but then he
has very little to communicate to that " repressive minority " of Brown
University scholars . He is a grinding bore !
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