Monthly Archives: January 2023

GM selling cars in Mexico that “don’t go.” Microsoft thesaurus laying eggs. Chatting with the washerwoman in Japan. Addressing a black man in the South. “Harangue” rebutted by Oak Park editor . . .,From Mid-July, 1996, edition . . .

https://jimbowman.substack.com/p/gm-selling-cars-in-mexico-that-dont?sd=pf

Netanyahu household a-flutter. Sun-Times man flouts correctness requirements. Homonym issues discussed. The Margaret who grieved, another who did not, glad the sisters made her memorize poetry. . . . ,July 1996, notations . . .

https://jimbowman.substack.com/p/netanyahu-household-a-flutter-sun?sd=pf

Sir Walter Scott, “Lady of the Lake,” Cynthia Ozick, in Dumbing Down: . . . the Strip-mining of American Culture . . ., Alarm sounded in 1996 . . .

https://jimbowman.substack.com/p/sir-walter-scott-lady-of-the-lake?sd=pf

My Jesuit friend the late Charlie Law, writing in 1996 from his missionary post in Nepal about baby-girl harvesting . . . Writing from the mountain kingdom, on the roof of the world . . .

https://jimbowman.substack.com/p/my-jesuit-friend-the-late-charlie

Civilization out of Africa? Not quite. Ignore ethnicity at your peril? If you say so. Dakotas saw their neighborhood changing in the 1840s. West Side black kids in the 1960s and their limited view … As seen in June of ’96 . . .

https://jimbowman.substack.com/p/civilization-out-of-africa-not-quite