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Amid the flamboyant world of 19 th -century French painting, no scandal attaches to the name Jean Baptiste Camille Corot, no vivid anecdote or outrageous, in-your-face work of art.
Thernstrom's anecdote about how Powell became brigadier general is ambiguous on its face.
The WP , in its Rehnquist story earlier in the week, used the same anecdote and committed the same sin with it.
But we read Quindlen, if we do, for her peppy style, and that emerges out of another tradition entirely--not the reformist rhetoric of Susan B. Anthony and Betty Friedan but the homespun, folksy, and often surprisingly liberal tones of an earlier era in American journalism, when newspaper editorialists and magazine editors and advice columnists elevated the anecdote of daily life to the status of gospel and did more than just about anyone else to invent our 20 th -century idea of everydayness.
Yes, I loved the anecdote about Bob Dylan's mishearing "I can't hide" as "I get high."