Wyatt's trivial pomposity

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 !