From Adam Gopnik’s write-up of the latest crop of Churchill literature in one of this past summer’s New Yorkers, a pretty radical departure from the rhetoric Winnie normally gets credit for (ht JD:
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From Adam Gopnik’s write-up of the latest crop of Churchill literature in one of this past summer’s New Yorkers, a pretty radical departure from the rhetoric Winnie normally gets credit for (ht JD:
I am starting out the new year in a particularly cranky mood, as might be guessed, but even I like this one.
All the Mockingbird world loves a cranky MC Hammer. What a poor and bland world it would be without at least one.
Stampdawg, you are absolutely the best. In heaven, I hope to be half as genuinely gracious as you are now 😉
Love it. I'd never read that quote. I love these:
In War: Resolution
In Defeat: Defiance
In Victory: Magnanimity
In Peace: Good Will
– Churchill
Is @ the beginning of each vol. of his 6 vol. history of WWII.