me: > > Anyway, it's a mistake to endlessly recycle the same jargon. Doug Henwood wrote: > Lou writes lots of stuff in smart, crisp English, and it's often > funny. If he uses a little jargon now and then, take it like seasoning.
FWIW, I wasn't criticizing Louis, but rather his turn of one phrase in one specific situation. > If you talk to an ISO person about Cuba, which I did not all that > long ago, you're likely to hear the words "state capitalist" and > "caudillo," perhaps more than once. Venezuela too. when I knew them, they struck me as immature. They don't understand imperialism, among other things. -- Jim Devine / "In the years since the phrase became a cliché, I have received any number of compliments for my supposed ability to 'think outside the box.' Actually, it has been a struggle for me to perceive just what these 'boxes' were — why they were there, why other people regarded them as important, where their borderlines might be, how to live safely within and without them." -- Tim Page (THE NEW YORKER, August 20, 2007).
