The list:
1. September 4, 2004 — Studying the recent spike in the phrase "barking mad," I quote Edmund Morris's reaction to Maureen Dowd's calling him "barking mad" — "Like all barking mad people, I feel perfectly normal."
6. December 1, 2023 — TR's "cyclonic" personality, as described by Edmund Morris.
7. April 25, 2004 — "Edmund Morris gives a pretty bad review to the brilliantly titled book about punctuation, 'Eats, Shoots & Leaves.'"
2. November 28, 2010 — That time Edmund Morris reamed Bob Shieffer on "Face the Nation," and I compared him to Peter Finch in "Network" and Marisa Tomei in "My Cousin Vinny."
3. December 4, 2023 — President Theodore Roosevelt waded naked in Rock Creek in full view of onlookers, described by Edmund Morris.
3. December 4, 2023 — President Theodore Roosevelt waded naked in Rock Creek in full view of onlookers, described by Edmund Morris.
4. November 16, 2023 — TR's smelling of arsenic, as described by Edmund Morris
5. June 24, 2004 — Edmund Morris has a theory about how Ronald Reagan came to think the way he did: "Not until he put on his mother’s spectacles, around the age of thirteen, did he perceive the world in all its sharp-edged intricacy."
6. December 1, 2023 — TR's "cyclonic" personality, as described by Edmund Morris.
7. April 25, 2004 — "Edmund Morris gives a pretty bad review to the brilliantly titled book about punctuation, 'Eats, Shoots & Leaves.'"
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That time Edmund Morris reamed Bob Shieffer on "Face the Nation,"
Excellent use of reamed
I knew a guy in college who told the story of his getting glasses at age 9 or so, and his discovery that trees weren't just green blobs, but had lotsa individual leaves on them. What he said about this sudden sharpening of his worldview was that it made him very cautious about thinking he knew everything about what he was looking at. He said it made him more careful about how he thought about everything. One of the smartest people I've ever known, that man.
I knew a guy (OK it was a discussion group/email friendship) who, because of very poor vision, was diagnosed as borderline retarded until he was four or five. Once they figured out the problem he was a star student, and got his degree in comp sci from MIT in the '60s.
In my case, my vision declined while I watched, during the term I was in wood shop/mechanical drawing class in seventh grade. I've been fairly useless without glasses ever since. (Of all things, it was a poster of trees and their uses that became blurry that I noticed first.)
Only three comments here, after what, 13 hours? I can't say much about Morris since I never read his books and only saw him on the likes of PBS and CSPAN (NTTAWWT) where he struck me as a bit dodgy. Hinky.
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