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Having read David Brock's essay in the July Esquire , I am aware of his penchant for the witless smear.
One of James' trademark innocents, Catherine is acted upon by three titanic forces: her father, Dr. Sloper (Albert Finney), whose express desire to protect a daughter he considers ugly and witless takes the form of ruthless repression; her aunt, (Maggie Smith), who wishes to weave out of her niece's life a breathlessly melodramatic romance; and Morris Townsend (Ben Chaplin), the playboy who has squandered a modest inheritance and now seeks salvation in the form of this unloved, unlovely, and affluent young woman.
Gabriel Schoenfeld, in an article for the June issue of that magazine, "Auschwitz and the Professors," deplores a recent spate of books and studies written by women (and a few men) he calls "feminist Holocaustologians," who indulge in "witless and malicious theorizing" and "the worst excesses" of a discipline--Holocaust Studies--he has no use for to begin with.
(Click here for its witless Slate spoof.)
Ellen 's coming out is hailed as the year's highlight, a "seminal moment" in television history (Howard Rosenberg, the Los Angeles Times ). Critics say the sitcom was witless and pointless until it focused on its main character's sexuality; "[e]ver since ...