“I think there's no excuse for the American poetry reader not knowing a good deal about what is going on in the rest of the world.” ThinkingWorldDealsKnowingReaderExcuseNot KnowingNo ExcusesAmerican Poetry Author:James Laughlin
“The genuflection toward 'fairness' is a familiar newsroom piety, in practice the excuse for a good deal of autopilot reporting and lazy thinking but in theory a benign ideal. In Washington, however, a community in which the management of news has become the single overriding preoccupation of the core industry, what 'fairness' has often come to mean is a scrupulous passivity, an agreement to cover the story not as it is occurring but as it is presented, which is to say as it is manufactured.” ThinkingMeanStoriesCommunityDealsPracticeTheoryIndustryNewsIdealsManagementExcuseCoreFamiliarLazyAgreementFairnessPietyPreoccupationBenignPassivityAutopilotLazy Thinking Author:Joan Didion
“You can never truly understand or help others, even in your own family, unless you first look thoroughly into your own life and deal with your own sins without compromise, excuses, or evasion (Matthew 7:1-5).” FirstsLooksHelpingSinDealsExcuseHelping OthersCompromiseMatthewEvasion Author:John C. Broger