Posts by Carol Stewart
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Hard News: Friday Music: Melodrama, in reply to lloydois,
I'd forgive him a lot for this line:
An incongruous guitar, like a wasp on a birthday cake -
Speaker: Seeking out the Spomeniks,
Extraordinary. Thank you for this exotic diversion.
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Super well said, Fiona.
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Up Front: What's the Big Idea?, in reply to BenWilson,
In social science, it simply means 'using multiple data sources or methods'. Here's a nice discussion.
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Capture: Autumn, what autumn?, in reply to Robert Guyton,
I've learned a new word: scrying. Will be useful for Scrabble.
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Capture: Autumn, what autumn?,
Destination Ward Island, a lovely little island about 2 km offshore of Eastbourne. In WWII, there was an anti-submarine boom linking it to the shore.
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Capture: Autumn, what autumn?,
.. so there was only one thing to do: take to the harbour in the kayak
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Capture: Autumn, what autumn?,
Last Saturday was the most perfect day in Wellington, as well described in this Met Service forecast ..
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Hard News: The lessons of Prohibition,
It sounds like a fascinating documentary, thanks for bringing it to our attention.
It's the part of the Prohibition struggle that pitted the rural America against the thriving cities, conservatism against liberalism and modernity.
I believe there's a word for that - Poujadism.
This is the excellent writer Jonathan Raban talking about Sarah Palin in 2008, but it's even more apropos now:
Sarah Palin has put a new face and voice to the long-standing, powerful, but inchoate movement in US political life that one might see as a mutant variety of Poujadism, inflected with a modern American accent. There are echoes of the Poujadist agenda of 1950s France in its contempt for metropolitan elites, fuelling the resentment of the provinces towards the capital and the countryside towards the city, in its xenophobic strain of nationalism, sturdy, paysan resistance to taxation, hostility to big business, and conviction that politicians are out to exploit the common man.
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Hard News: The long road to Hit and Run,
It's most impressive that Danyl was able to read the book - on sale at 5:30 last night in Unity Books - and write such a cogent review by this morning.
