This sketch is several years old. It’s mine, yes, but I don’t remember making it nor what it depicts. My scrawled Arabic says “The fire is under control.” Apropos of who knows what? (JMN)
May we be guided by hope, joy and a fierce moral imagination. (Rabbi Sharon Brous)
Anyone who watches Buttigieg on Fox News knows he can boil things down with terrific lines, and it’s being memorable in a matter of minutes that is meaningful. (Patrick Healy)
Mr. Walz has a direct way of speaking that feels authentic and a teacher’s knack for making a message simple and memorable. (Ted Genoways)
The point of free speech is to open discussion, not to shut it down. (Bret Stephens)
I strive to be a scribbler for whom terse is best. No surprise as a reader I favor the short lyric. When a lyric’s proper lit, it’s a heat-seeking message rocket.
Night 2 of the DNC convention reminded me that good oratory is lyrical in being both potent and rare. There were decent stretches of speech, to be sure — Doug Emhoff was graceful, Barack splendid (Now that it’s popular they don’t call it “Obamacare” any more!, he mused).
But the evening’s accolade goes to Michelle Obama. With her content, tone, affect, timing, cogency and polish she owned the moment. In reference to a presidential candidate she said:
Who wants to tell him that the job he’s currently seeking might just be one of those Black jobs? … Most of us will never be afforded the grace of failing forward. We will never benefit from the affirmative action of generational wealth.
“That is a brilliant rhetorical summation of complicated ideas,” writes Tressie McMillan Cottom in her report of the speech.
I live in Texas and devote much of my time to easel painting on an amateur basis. I stream a lot of music, mostly jazz, throughout the day. I like to read and memorize poetry.
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Ciceronian Suasion: ‘Memorable in a Matter of Minutes’
This sketch is several years old. It’s mine, yes, but I don’t remember making it nor what it depicts. My scrawled Arabic says “The fire is under control.” Apropos of who knows what? (JMN)
May we be guided by hope, joy and a fierce moral imagination.
(Rabbi Sharon Brous)
Anyone who watches Buttigieg on Fox News knows he can boil things down with terrific lines, and it’s being memorable in a matter of minutes that is meaningful.
(Patrick Healy)
Mr. Walz has a direct way of speaking that feels authentic and a teacher’s knack for making a message simple and memorable.
(Ted Genoways)
The point of free speech is to open discussion, not to shut it down.
(Bret Stephens)
I strive to be a scribbler for whom terse is best. No surprise as a reader I favor the short lyric. When a lyric’s proper lit, it’s a heat-seeking message rocket.
Night 2 of the DNC convention reminded me that good oratory is lyrical in being both potent and rare. There were decent stretches of speech, to be sure — Doug Emhoff was graceful, Barack splendid (Now that it’s popular they don’t call it “Obamacare” any more!, he mused).
But the evening’s accolade goes to Michelle Obama. With her content, tone, affect, timing, cogency and polish she owned the moment. In reference to a presidential candidate she said:
Who wants to tell him that the job he’s currently seeking might just be one of those Black jobs? … Most of us will never be afforded the grace of failing forward. We will never benefit from the affirmative action of generational wealth.
“That is a brilliant rhetorical summation of complicated ideas,” writes Tressie McMillan Cottom in her report of the speech.
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I live in Texas and devote much of my time to easel painting on an amateur basis. I stream a lot of music, mostly jazz, throughout the day. I like to read and memorize poetry.