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“Your damned nonsense can I stand twice or once, but sometimes always, my God, never. Svatislav Richter, to the second flute at Covent Garden PEOPLE HAVE THOUGHT prose style many things—persuasion or mere music, duty or pastime, ornament only, the man himself. It has been left for Americans to think it a problem: the National Problem, the Communications Problem.”
― Style: An Anti-Textbook
― Style: An Anti-Textbook
“IT TAKES SOME temerity to publish, in a new edition, a book written more than thirty years ago.”
― Style: An Anti-Textbook
― Style: An Anti-Textbook
“When a style becomes opaque, when you look at it rather than looking through it, the schoolmarmly bell of reproach begins to ring.”
― Style: An Anti-Textbook
― Style: An Anti-Textbook
“Studying the mining industry requires a healthy dose of skepticism and perhaps even a measure of cynicism, especially in relation to the promotion of the virtuous discourses of sustainability and corporate social responsibility. In contrast to the anthropological tradition of suspending one’s disbelief when conducting ethnographic research, I have declined to give the mining industry the benefit of the doubt: its track record demands a higher standard of proof.”
― Mining Capitalism: The Relationship between Corporations and Their Critics
― Mining Capitalism: The Relationship between Corporations and Their Critics
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