John Yau and Albert Mobilio select a few choice titles from the past year.
Weekend Words
Weekend Words: Farewell
“I’ll never see them again. I know that. And they know that. And knowing this, we say farewell.”
Weekend Words: Resign
“The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.”
Weekend Words: Constitution
“We have built no national temples but the Capitol; we consult no common oracle but the Constitution.”
Weekend Words: Idiot
“Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them.”
Weekend Words: Press
“Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians.”
Weekend Words: Passage
“In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning.”