| 单词 | Mencken |
| 例句 | "He and Mencken and I all went to Holy Cross together." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z Now, what were the names of books written by H. L. Mencken? Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z So many young men get their likes and dislikes from Mencken. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z “What books by Mencken does he want?” she asked. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Now, how could I find out about this Mencken? Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t know what he wants by Mencken,” she said under her breath. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps I had made a mistake about Mencken? Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Then what ideas did Mencken hold that made a newspaper like the Commercial Appeal castigate him publicly? Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The article was a furious denunciation of Mencken, concluding with one, hot, short sentence: Mencken is a fool. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I came finally to the editorial page and saw an article dealing with one H. L. Mencken. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z No, he was a Baptist and I had the suspicion that he would not be quite able to comprehend why a black boy would want to read Mencken. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I wondered what on earth this Mencken had done to call down upon him the scorn of the South. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Knowing no more of Mencken than I did at that moment, I felt a vague sympathy for him. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z And right off I was on guard against Mencken’s books. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Who were these men about whom Mencken was talking so passionately? Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Shiv, once a Democratic operative, is horrified at the “nightmare” of a President Mencken. In ‘Succession,’ Democracy Goes Up in Smoke 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z Her attempt to engage Monica in casual bar banter by bringing up H. L. Mencken is an excellent case in point. ‘Silicon Valley’ Season 3, Episode 5: The Scrappy Innovator 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z Roman wants the desk to run with it but to blame "antifa" instead of Mencken's extremist thugs, the real culprits. Cousin Greg was the feckless joke of "Succession." Now he's the idiot who abets democracy's fall 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z Here’s another one for the “Kendall can’t stand to see his family get bullied” file: When Mencken makes fun of Roman’s crying jag, Kendall immediately shuts that joke down. ‘Succession’ Season 4, Episode 9 Recap: Dearly Departed 2023-05-21T04:00:00Z The superstar author of This Side of Paradise, with his "sophomore face and troubadour heart", was so attractive, according to American journalist HL Mencken, that "he might have been called beautiful". Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and the Invention of The Great Gatsby by Sarah Churchwell – review 2013-06-02T07:01:17Z “I drink exactly as much as I want, and one drink more,” Mencken says and also notes, “When I get stewed I go to sleep, even in the presence of women and clergymen.” 1. Make List; 2. Do Stuff 2011-06-02T22:04:11Z Mencken from the 1920s, about how much harm comedy can do, that could be taken from any number of podcasts today. Writing Native American Stand-Ups Into the History of Comedy 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z Across the aisle, and a row or two behind him, Mencken also grins enigmatically. "Succession" mourns the Roy "family way" in all its tragic glory 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z Provided Mencken's declared victory survives the inevitable legal challenges, that means Roman is continuing his father's business model of seducing presidents to fatten the corporate bottom line. "Succession" fans should be shocked by Roman Roy. He was always a terrible person with a quick wit 2023-05-20T04:00:00Z True to Tom’s dire warnings, it is while Darwin is briefly incapacitated by foodstuffs that the Roys start making the decision to call the election for Mencken. ‘Succession’ Season 4, Episode 8 Recap: The Will of Some People 2023-05-14T04:00:00Z I was as thrilled by it as Mencken said he was upon first reading Dreiser’s colossal “Sister Carrie.” Times Critics Discuss 2021 in Books, From Breakout Stars to Cover Blobs 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z Mencken, the Jazz Age scribe who loved Baltimore and booze in equal measure, spared no opportunity to praise his state’s famous rye whiskey. Maryland Rye Whiskey Has Finally Returned. But What Was It in the First Place? 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z Roman knows who Mencken is, better than any of the Roys do; in Season 3, it was to him that Mencken expressed his openness to borrowing ideas from “H,” his pet name for Hitler. In ‘Succession,’ Democracy Goes Up in Smoke 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z Here, he listens to Shiv’s argument that ATN could slow the Mencken momentum. ‘Succession’ Season 4, Episode 8 Recap: The Will of Some People 2023-05-14T04:00:00Z At this point it's traditional to quote the brilliant HL Mencken, who said: "The Great Gatsby is in form no more than a glorified anecdote, and not too probable at that." The Great Gatsby: F Scott Fitzgerald is right on time 2013-05-07T13:41:06Z A 1927 letter to the artist Charles Green Shaw from H. L. Mencken lists Mencken’s favorite tipples in order: “beer in any form, Moselle, Burgundy, Chianti, gin and ginger-beer, and rye whiskey.” 1. Make List; 2. Do Stuff 2011-06-02T22:04:11Z The results end up tight enough to be decided by a highly convenient, apparently intentional fire in a Milwaukee vote counting station, which incinerates enough pro-Democratic ballots to swing Wisconsin to the Republican Mencken. In ‘Succession,’ Democracy Goes Up in Smoke 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z Mencken labeled “the booboisie”? The triumph of “Babbitt” is that we can’t confidently answer that question. The Novelist Who Saw Middle America as It Really Was 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z HL Mencken said that war is God's way of teaching Americans geography. Meet the Islamic superheroes 2010-10-23T23:03:00Z “Chasing History” lacks the parched wit of Russell Baker’s “The Good Times” and the shrewdness of Mencken’s “Newspaper Days.” Carl Bernstein, Looking Back at His Start, Conjures the Newsrooms of the Early 1960s 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z Then she pitches her plan for a Mencken workaround: Offer her as an American CEO. "Succession" mourns the Roy "family way" in all its tragic glory 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z “I don’t think the current mayor knows where the Mencken house is,” Reed said. House of writer H.L. Mencken remains in disrepair 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z When the series ends — minor spoilers ahead — Connor is potentially up for the job of U.S. ambassador to Slovenia if Jeryd Mencken, the Republican nominee played by Justin Kirk, succeeds at becoming president. Alan Ruck Is Happy That Connor Roy Survived 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z Yet with all this in play, people lost their minds at seeing Roman, Mencken's biggest champion, become the most vocal fan of undermining American democracy. "Succession" fans should be shocked by Roman Roy. He was always a terrible person with a quick wit 2023-05-20T04:00:00Z Throughout his years Mencken maintained a deep love for the home where he was raised, became successful and lived quietly after a stroke in 1948 robbed him of the ability to read and write. House of writer H.L. Mencken remains in disrepair 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z Mencken, who influenced his writing, his bedrock loathing was for sanctimony. P.J. O’Rourke Wrote With High, Cranky Style in a Shrinking Tradition 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z Ken taken aback, presses Mencken to drop something publicly vis-à-vis his regulatory concerns regarding foreign tech – you know, the GoJo-killing tat Ken and Rome were expecting in exchange for pressing Mencken to ATN's tit. "Succession" mourns the Roy "family way" in all its tragic glory 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z “The Republicans never do any serious fighting in public,” H. L. Mencken declared in 1932, just before the G.O.P.’s Convention, where Herbert Hoover ran for the nomination, all but unopposed. Donald Trump, the Great Embarrassment 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z When roused, he cranked up the gleeful malice that was H. L. Mencken’s trademark. Giving a Satirist of the Third Reich the Last Laugh 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z Roman brushes off Mencken as "IP, just like anything else." On "Succession," why bother simply surviving when you can fake what it means to be living ... plus? 2023-05-01T04:00:00Z “Dreiser, moving to Tenth Street, found himself in a dense mass of such Little Red Riding Hoods and their attendant wolves,” Mencken writes. Sunday Reading: Manhattan Stories 2019-07-28T04:00:00Z “If we can’t match his vim, then God knows the future will be sluggish and gray,” he says, as both Mencken and Lukas Matsson look on with what appears to be grudging admiration. ‘Succession’ Season 4, Episode 9 Recap: Dearly Departed 2023-05-21T04:00:00Z Mencken, smoking pot and sipping pomegranate juice at the Playboy Mansion. Bill Maher is smug, outspoken and just might get a congressman voted out of office “The Democrats, unlike the Republicans, always do their fighting in public,” Mencken wrote. Donald Trump, the Great Embarrassment 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z Roman, in an act of gregging, ventures to Mencken's hotel war room, where the fascist candidate demands assurances that ATN will deliver him the presidency – if not that night, then next time. Cousin Greg was the feckless joke of "Succession." Now he's the idiot who abets democracy's fall 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z Mencken, "nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public." Oscars Show Growing Gap Between Moviegoers and Academy 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z Mencken, Cain was by the 1920s a New York scribe with a reputation as a witty cynic, a tough-minded reporter, a two-fisted drinker and a ladies' man. Noir classic steps out of the shadows at ACT 2011-10-20T18:50:11Z While the other networks are suggesting that Mencken goons may have burned the Milwaukee votes, ATN floats theories like “electrical failure.” ‘Succession’ Season 4, Episode 8 Recap: The Will of Some People 2023-05-14T04:00:00Z There are a few features serving as reminders that Mencken lived there, such as the bookshelves that line walls in his bedroom. House of writer H.L. Mencken remains in disrepair 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z The home’s fate has not been aided by the beating Mencken’s reputation took after the 1989 publication of his diaries suggested he could be anti-Semitic and a racist and was sympathetic to Nazi Germany. House of writer H.L. Mencken remains in disrepair 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z Roman counters that Mencken has guaranteed to help them stop the GoJo deal. Cousin Greg was the feckless joke of "Succession." Now he's the idiot who abets democracy's fall 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z ATN runs Mencken's premature victory speech, where he promises a version of democracy that isn't transactional – ha – or unsullied by compromise with "welfare kings and queens." Cousin Greg was the feckless joke of "Succession." Now he's the idiot who abets democracy's fall 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z Mencken are also included but no authors more modern. What does this remind you of? A compendium of metaphors can help. 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z Burden’s crucial observation, early in the novel, is that Stark needs to stop droning about policy in his speeches and start stirring up the animals, as H. L. Mencken once put it. ‘All the King’s Men,’ Now 70, Has a Touch of 2016 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z H. L. Mencken said, "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American people." Oscars Show Growing Gap Between Moviegoers and Academy 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z “I thought you were the sound system,” Mencken says to Kendall. ‘Succession’ Season 4, Episode 9 Recap: Dearly Departed 2023-05-21T04:00:00Z Mencken hesitates, bringing up Shiv's ideological opposition to him. "Succession" mourns the Roy "family way" in all its tragic glory 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z But the backyard is still vibrant, with lilacs in the garden and grapes growing from a pergola adorned with tiles Mencken himself put in. House of writer H.L. Mencken remains in disrepair 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z Nervous Mencken admirers and neighbors are waiting for something to happen with the property. House of writer H.L. Mencken remains in disrepair 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z On this election night, up in ATN’s executive offices, there are two competing truths, represented by the Jimenez supporter Shiv and the Mencken backer Roman. ‘Succession’ Season 4, Episode 8 Recap: The Will of Some People 2023-05-14T04:00:00Z Mencken was always in it for himself, and the one man that he might have listened to, Roman, publicly collapsed under the weight of an important task. "Succession" mourns the Roy "family way" in all its tragic glory 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z August Mencken once said his brother had a “special horror” that the home would be “wrecked” after he died, according to the website of the Friends of H.L. House of writer H.L. Mencken remains in disrepair 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z Mencken expressed himself, for instance in his definition of Puritanism: “The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.” Calvin Trillin: By the Book 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z Based on other states' results, calling Wisconsin for Mencken would effectively make him president. Cousin Greg was the feckless joke of "Succession." Now he's the idiot who abets democracy's fall 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z More than three decades later, Baltimore journalist and satirist H. L. Mencken reached a decidedly different conclusion. When SCOTUS still fixed things: What America looked like before the Warren Court 2014-06-29T04:00:00Z Mencken in full throat as he destroys the prose of Warren G. Harding: What does this remind you of? A compendium of metaphors can help. 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z Mencken, the Chesapeake Bay is still abundant in vistas. Review | In the galleries: Digital and traditional media join forces 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z She is also not swayed by the prospect of helping Mencken, telling her husband, “All my family and friends hate Mencken.” ‘Succession’ Season 4, Episode 7 Recap: The Scorpion and the Scorpion 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z As the place fills, Roman gets a phone call from Jeryd Mencken, the fascist horse he bet on in this presidential race. Wins, losses and regrets: It's all part of the game at this "Succession" tailgate party 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z Lepore cites Mencken’s spoof Constitution for Roosevelt: “All governmental power of whatever sort shall be vested in a president of the United States.” The American Past: A History of Contradictions 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z Then news of street harassment from Mencken supporters in different cities escalates into reports that a Milwaukee ballot processing center has been set on fire. Cousin Greg was the feckless joke of "Succession." Now he's the idiot who abets democracy's fall 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z Among the dismissive early reviews of the novel was one by the influential critic HL Mencken, who called Gatsby little more than "a glorified anecdote". What makes The Great Gatsby great? 2013-05-03T18:00:00Z H. L. Mencken considered his operas “the most stupendous works of art ever contrived by man.” From George Eliot to Neo-Nazi Skinheads: The Chaotic Cult of Richard Wagner 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z Bellow and J. D. Salinger, born four years apart, reintroduced “voice” into American fiction, reviving the iconoclastic spirit of Mark Twain and H. L. Mencken. ‘The Life of Saul Bellow: To Fame and Fortune, 1915-1964,’ by Zachary Leader 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z Roman, who handpicked Mencken for Logan in the first place, wants his guy to win. Cousin Greg was the feckless joke of "Succession." Now he's the idiot who abets democracy's fall 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z It’s no wonder that Mencken seems relieved to talk with Shiv and Matsson, who seem … well, cooler. ‘Succession’ Season 4, Episode 9 Recap: Dearly Departed 2023-05-21T04:00:00Z Readjusting their strategy for a looming Mencken presidency, they have decided to show they can play ball with a neo-fascist. ‘Succession’ Season 4, Episode 9 Recap: Dearly Departed 2023-05-21T04:00:00Z Then Connor skulks in to query Mencken on the ambassadorship he was expecting. "Succession" mourns the Roy "family way" in all its tragic glory 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z We claimed to call up the ghost of H. L. Mencken, who was an Evening Sun writer, and ask him how long would the Evening Sun last? Laura Lippman on turning true crime into fiction: "Am I not appropriating somebody's story?" 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z Just because ATN declared Mencken the winner doesn’t mean the election is over. ‘Succession’ Season 4, Episode 8 Recap: The Will of Some People 2023-05-14T04:00:00Z He’s lived down the street from the Mencken house for more than a decade, and wants to see progress. House of writer H.L. Mencken remains in disrepair 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z Roman is in the tank for Mencken, and Shiv is secretly working for Matsson, who wants Jimenez, because he doesn't seem insane. Cousin Greg was the feckless joke of "Succession." Now he's the idiot who abets democracy's fall 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z H. L. Mencken once wrote that his definition of happiness included “a comfortable feeling of superiority to the masses of one’s fellow men.” Notes From the Book Review Archives 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z Mencken, Hickey’s best essays will outlive many of the artworks that occasioned them: His prose is that good. Review | How Dave Hickey became one of the most influential art critics in America 2021-06-07T04:00:00Z And there are complications involved with raising money for the Mencken House. House of writer H.L. Mencken remains in disrepair 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z Mencken’s family moved into the home in the 1880s when he was just a few years old. House of writer H.L. Mencken remains in disrepair 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z Inside, the Mencken house isn’t much different from most Baltimore row homes of that era. House of writer H.L. Mencken remains in disrepair 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z Newspaper accounts differ widely; even Mencken left few clues about his beloved drink. Maryland Rye Whiskey Has Finally Returned. But What Was It in the First Place? 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z Kendall is hesitant because he is no Mencken fan. ‘Succession’ Season 4, Episode 8 Recap: The Will of Some People 2023-05-14T04:00:00Z We can’t make our existences longer, H. L. Mencken said, but we can make them wider. John Kerry Recounts a Life Full of Incident (and a Few Regrets) in ‘Every Day Is Extra’ 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z When he mentions to Roman that he fears what a Mencken administration might mean for his adopted daughter, Sophie, his brother mocks him for caring about the ideals of American pluralism. ‘Succession’ Season 4, Episode 8 Recap: The Will of Some People 2023-05-14T04:00:00Z Placed opposite Roman in a stand-off and with Kendall between them, she thinks that reminding Ken that giving Mencken the presidency will be disastrous for democracy will be enough to appeal to his morality. Cousin Greg was the feckless joke of "Succession." Now he's the idiot who abets democracy's fall 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z The Mencken family doctor, he added, apparently approved: “He believed and taught that a shot of Maryland whiskey was the best preventive of pneumonia in the R months.” Maryland Rye Whiskey Has Finally Returned. But What Was It in the First Place? 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z But never underestimate two things — the taste of the American public, to paraphrase H. L. Mencken, and the nag factor. ‘The Emoji Movie’ Starts Strong as ‘Dunkirk’ Stays at No. 1 2017-07-30T04:00:00Z The polling is showing a tight presidential race, with the Republican candidate Jeryd Mencken falling just short in a few key states. ‘Succession’ Season 4, Episode 7 Recap: The Scorpion and the Scorpion 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z At the end of election night, with ballots burning and Mencken delivering a dog-whistley speech about making America “clean,” Roman insists that nothing he or ATN did that night was that bad or consequential. In ‘Succession,’ Democracy Goes Up in Smoke 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z A more appropriate and much more unsettling Mencken observation is that “the men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars”. 'You made this bed, America!' How House of Cards turned the tables on us 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z L. Mencken * * * TODAY—or rather tonight; at 9:26 pm EST, to be precise—the transiting Sun will conjunct my natal Sun for the fortieth time. Did I make it? 2012-11-18T17:01:00Z If Mencken is elected president and Connor goes over as ambassador, he will delegate all responsibility. Alan Ruck Is Happy That Connor Roy Survived 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z Then he makes a beeline for Mencken as Shiv and Matsson look on from a table across the room. "Succession" mourns the Roy "family way" in all its tragic glory 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z In a later interview with H. L. Mencken, Muck claimed that on one hot day he and his musicians performed Beethoven’s “Eroica” Symphony in the nude. The “Star-Spangled Banner” Controversy That Altered the Course of American Music 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z Roman corners his older half-brother and conveys Mencken's promise for a sweet ambassadorship to his choice of autocratic states. Wins, losses and regrets: It's all part of the game at this "Succession" tailgate party 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z In addition to wrestling with the technical issues of forming a single group, Waters said, members of the two Mencken groups have again started meeting with city officials about taking over the property. House of writer H.L. Mencken remains in disrepair 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z Hugo whispers to Kendall about Shiv's plan to step in as CEO if Matsson were to buy ATN, which Mencken may accept. "Succession" mourns the Roy "family way" in all its tragic glory 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z The funds were left for the City Life Museums, which initially oversaw Mencken’s home but which shuttered in 1997. House of writer H.L. Mencken remains in disrepair 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z The outline of the pen where he and his brother August Mencken kept a Shetland pony as children is still visible. House of writer H.L. Mencken remains in disrepair 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z Mencken, who eventually served on their company’s board. Blanche Knopf: The complicated woman behind a powerful literary brand 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z Kendall, feeling betrayed by the sibling he trusts most, spits some icy words in Shiv’s direction and then tells Tom to make the call for Mencken. ‘Succession’ Season 4, Episode 8 Recap: The Will of Some People 2023-05-14T04:00:00Z It’s been deteriorating for years, opened only on special occasions, a source of frustration to West Baltimore residents and legions of Mencken admirers who believe it deserves a better fate. House of writer H.L. Mencken remains in disrepair 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z Mencken coldly responds that Kendall is just the sound system. "Succession" mourns the Roy "family way" in all its tragic glory 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z Mencken and magazines such as the New Yorker further ridiculed the Midwest as a backward, second-class culture of yokels and rednecks who lacked a dedication to the intellect, let alone sensitivity to the arts. How the Midwest went from the idealized to the derided 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z Placing Mencken in the White House also serves his vision of a future ATN, one that attracts younger wingnuts by offering "deep state conspiracy hour, but with, like a f**king wink, you know?" "Succession" fans should be shocked by Roman Roy. He was always a terrible person with a quick wit 2023-05-20T04:00:00Z And its wit was irreverent, thanks to the influence of H. L. Mencken’s style on Hadden, Time’s first editor. Books of The Times: Alan Brinkley Tells Henry Luce?s Story in ?The Publisher? 2010-04-19T21:35:00Z Mencken - about literature, culture, politics and, as he liked to call it, "the birds and the bees." Gore Vidal, celebrated author, playwright, dies 2012-08-01T17:33:11Z The first is that Kendall really wants the next president to kill the GoJo deal, which Roman insists Mencken will do. ‘Succession’ Season 4, Episode 8 Recap: The Will of Some People 2023-05-14T04:00:00Z One shelf in the living room has about a yard’s worth of books by or about H. L. Mencken. Calvin Trillin: By the Book 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z Mencken, describes as “the buckle on the Bible Belt.” Review: John Douglas Thompson and Alfred Molina’s clash of titans transcends dated ‘Inherit the Wind’ 2023-11-07T05:00:00Z Mencken and his warning about such solutions: For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple and wrong. E-bike rebates: Invest in safety 2023-09-08T04:00:00Z They even push ATN to call the presidential election for fascist Republican candidate Jaryd Mencken , because he signals a willingness to block the sale. 'Succession' finale: Will Kendall, Shiv or Roman emerge as the leader? 2023-05-28T04:00:00Z Connor, after losing every state and endorsing Mencken, is instead planning for his hoped-for ambassadorship. ‘Succession’ finale: 5 questions to consider as you get ready for the end game 2023-05-27T04:00:00Z Also Mencken: “The whole place stank of orange blossoms.” 'Paradise with a lobotomy' or 'just a big parking lot'? Pick your fave L.A. insult 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z Mencken, who defined Puritanism as “the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, might be happy,” these anti-woke warriors seem to live in dread that someone, somewhere, might be acting rationally and graciously. Opinion | The 2024 election could be where anti-wokeness goes to die 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z Mencken described Bryan as a man who "liked people who sweated freely, and were not debauched by the refinements of the toilet." How in God's name are the Democrats still losing — even after Jan. 6 hearings and Roe? 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z But there are still things that could hinder Kendall’s rise, like concern over what a Mencken presidency would mean for his daughter, who is not white. 'Succession' finale: Will Kendall, Shiv or Roman emerge as the leader? 2023-05-28T04:00:00Z “Succession’s” fictional election results have both professional and personal implications for the Roy family, with protests over Mencken erupting throughout the city. ‘Succession’ finale: 5 questions to consider as you get ready for the end game 2023-05-27T04:00:00Z Citrus made L.A. fragrant before smog crowded it out, but maybe orange blossoms — flower of bridal bouquets — scared off Mencken. 'Paradise with a lobotomy' or 'just a big parking lot'? Pick your fave L.A. insult 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z Mencken noted the problems in modern journalism nearly a century ago. Why I'm going to Ukraine: We deserve the truth — and that's my job 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z Mencken, targeting hypocrisy, pomposity and contradiction wherever he found it. P.J. O’Rourke, satirist and conservative commentator, dies at 74 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z Mencken research fellow and appeared regularly on NPR’s quiz show “Wait Wait ... Don’t Tell Me.” P.J. O'Rourke, political satirist and journalist, dead at 74 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z But even Shiv seems willing to put her moral qualms aside at the prospect of making a deal with Mencken. ‘Succession’ finale: 5 questions to consider as you get ready for the end game 2023-05-27T04:00:00Z Mencken pointed out, what ails most reporters is that they are people "without sufficient force of character to resist the blandishments" that surround them from the moment they set foot in Washington. Will we really let ourselves be governed by irredeemable morons? That's the choice, America 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z The Roys’ jokes are on the same scornful wavelength as Mencken’s, and they reinforce the allure of transgression, especially when trapped in an airless room full of human bow ties. Perspective | ‘Succession’ takes us behind the scenes of an anti-democratic conclave, and the sights are terrifying 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z Mencken described as a "vast and militant ignorance" a century ago, which reminds us that arrogant ignorance isn't a new phenomenon — only that No Child Left Behind exacerbated the problem. Dumbass nation: Our biggest national security problem is America's "vast and militant ignorance" 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z Mencken supposedly said, that “for every complex problem, there is an answer that is clear, simple and wrong.” Seattle City Council keeps ignoring the golden goose 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z By 1926, when crabby Baltimore journalist H. L. Mencken complained that L.A. “stank of orange blossoms,” it also stank of oil. Why there are oil wells all over Southern California 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z "Journalists are, in the main, extremely stupid, sentimental and credulous fellows — because nothing is easier than to fool them," Mencken warned us. Will we really let ourselves be governed by irredeemable morons? That's the choice, America 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z Mencken to lampoon preachers who dammed brooks by baptizing the faithful; and the lynch mobs and Klansmen and believers who followed such demagogues as Louisiana Gov. Huey Long and Sen. Joe McCarthy. Are the Trumpers headed for history's dumpster? Don't count on it 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z As HL Mencken might have said: if you’re going to sell your soul, make sure you get a good price. Nick Clegg is on the wrong side of history at Facebook | John Naughton 2020-06-20T04:00:00Z Mencken’s thought: “For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.” Opinion | The police-violence story has many sides 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z Mencken Club is paying for its site, which may be hosted by Squarespace as well. Funding hate: How online merchants and payment processors aid white nationalists 2020-04-27T04:00:00Z Mencken that “nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people.” Review: 'The Hunt' arrives after months of controversy, but the toothless satire loses its way 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z Mencken described the music of Puccini as “silver macaroni, exquisitely tangled,” and like many Italian tales, the facts in the case of Pliny are as pliable as tubes of boiled pasta. Here Lies the Skull of Pliny the Elder, Maybe 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z Mencken, that “no one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.” Opinion | Congress should put an end to the State of the Union. For good. 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z Mencken biographer who worked as a researcher for both Morrises in the late 1980s. Sylvia Jukes Morris, biographer of Edith Roosevelt and Clare Boothe Luce, dies at 84 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z Mencken claimed, nobody ever lost money underestimating the intelligence of the American public, that apparently continues to be true where political matters are concerned. Review: In 'American Dharma,' Steve Bannon gleefully reflects on the election of President Trump 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z Forthcoming attractions include the restored home of HL Mencken, a celebrated journalist and author whose assignments included the 1925 Scopes “monkey trial” in Tennessee. Springing the 'rat' trap: how Baltimore fought back against Trump's insults 2019-10-26T04:00:00Z At their very best, these concise scribbles rival Murray or Mencken. Letters: This UCLA story isn't the right style for many readers 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z Mencken lived for decades before his death is getting a $1.5 million facelift. Home of famed journalist H.L. Mencken getting $1.5M facelift 2019-09-01T04:00:00Z Mencken famously said, they are driven by the "haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy." Why are Republicans taking away birth control? Because they don't want women to have it 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z Mencken writing award from the Baltimore Sun for his columns. Wesley Pruden, Washington Times editor and pugnacious conservative columnist, dies at 83 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z Mencken dismissed him as a “backwoods demagogue of the oldest and most familiar model — impudent, blackguardly, and infinitely prehensile.” Perspective | Yes, Trump is undignified. Demagogues have to be. 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z He lacked the patience and discipline for literature—though he might have become, if he had stuck to journalism, a second Mencken, dispensing pungently funny observations of everyone and everything. The Great Hollywood Screenwriter Who Hated Hollywood 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z Mencken’s father bought the home in 1883, three years after his son’s birth. Home of famed journalist H.L. Mencken getting $1.5M facelift 2019-09-01T04:00:00Z Mencken and the educated of his day saw great danger in Harding’s simplistic sales pitch that if we only let the very, very wealthy have free reign, they’d make everything right in America. Alexander Hamilton was preoccupied with the threat that a presidency like Trump’s posed for Ame... 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z Mencken's posthumously published diaries, however, made clear that he was an ardent racist and anti-Semite, which has made him something of a hero to the far right. Donald Trump’s white nationalist White House: Still in full effect 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z Mencken Club conference in Maryland, has been attended in the past by alt-right leaders such as Spencer, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks extremist groups. Trump adviser Larry Kudlow hosted publisher of white nationalists at his home 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z The Mencken conference was also once attended by Richard Spencer, another outspoken white nationalist who has supported Trump in order to advance the cause of white supremacy. Trump speechwriter fired after link to white nationalists made public 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z “In 2016 I attended the Mencken conference in question and delivered a stand-alone, academic talk titled ‘The Intelligentsia and the Right.’ Trump speechwriter fired amid scrutiny of appearance with white nationalists 2018-08-19T04:00:00Z Mencken’s famous quote about the willingness of the American electorate to follow hustlers, con men, and downright demagogues like Harding. Alexander Hamilton was preoccupied with the threat that a presidency like Trump’s posed for Ame... 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z Or maybe a course in economics, Mr. Mencken. Editorial Roundup: Recent editorials in Arkansas newspapers 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z Mencken quote for you which is really applicable to this. GOP Senate candidate Austin Petersen: My party is “spineless” on trade, prison, immigration 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z In a statement to the Post, Beattie defended both his presence at the Mencken conference and the Trump administration. Trump speechwriter fired after link to white nationalists made public 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z But he apparently refused to resign, arguing that he was not racist and that he had made uncontroversial academic points at the Mencken gathering. Trump speechwriter fired amid scrutiny of appearance with white nationalists 2018-08-19T04:00:00Z On July 26, 1920, Mencken published an essay in the Baltimore Evening Sun that included: Alexander Hamilton was preoccupied with the threat that a presidency like Trump’s posed for Ame... 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z But, quoting US writer HL Mencken, he added. Palm oil ‘disastrous’ for wildlife but here to stay, experts warn 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z Mencken might have been struck dumb, ours is perhaps an apt moment for just such a reminder. Not so great wars — theirs and ours 2018-06-09T04:00:00Z Mencken toward the close of the first volume of “The American Language.” Sometimes the Language Game Needs a Penalty Box 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z It was Mr. Mencken who slapped it down with “sketches in the bold, bad manner of the Café du Dome,” and the smaller boys, in their manner, took similar pokes at it. Reading “In Our Time” in 1927 1927-10-22T05:00:00Z Of President Harding’s rhetoric, as if foreshadowing Trump, Mencken wrote in 1921: Alexander Hamilton was preoccupied with the threat that a presidency like Trump’s posed for Ame... 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z Mencken was right when he said, “No one in this world . . . has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.” What comes next in Trump’s big power-grab: How close is he to staging a coup? 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z Mencken once called him “the most dangerous writer alive” to his face, and while Mencken was kidding, it was on the square. ‘The Will Rogers Follies’ Review: Return of the Singing Cowboy 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z Your editorial about the opioid crisis brought to mind the words of the great American journalist H. L. Mencken: “For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple and wrong.” Opinion | Ways to Address the Opioid Crisis 2018-04-28T04:00:00Z After his defeat in 1928, Mencken advised: “The future of the Democracy lies in following the furrow plowed by Al.” Trailblazers in Politics and Civil Rights 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z Indeed, Froese and Mencken found that religious faith seemed to put the brakes on white men’s attachment to guns. Why Are White Men Stockpiling Guns? 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z “For these readers, it appeared, all took my idle jocosities with complete seriousness. . . . Pretty soon,” Mencken later wrote, “I began to encounter my preposterous ‘facts’ in the writings of other men. . . . This Fake News Was Good Clean Fun 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z Baylor University sociologists F. Carson Mencken and Paul Froese tackled these questions in a study published last month in Social Problems. Do Money, Social Status Woes Fuel the U.S. Gun Culture? 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z Mencken in 1940, from the Greek ecdysis, meaning “a stripping or casting off.” Live music brings ‘Land of the Sweets: The Burlesque Nutcracker’ to a whole new level 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z Mencken once predicted, “the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.” A toast to a small morning pleasure, and a toast to you for reading it 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z Mencken once quipped that the happy man is one who earns $100 more than his wife’s sister’s husband. Here's How Money Really Can Buy You Happiness 2017-08-07T04:00:00Z By 1860, Mencken told readers, “every hotel in New York had a bathtub, and some had two and even three.” This Fake News Was Good Clean Fun 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z Mencken defined as the haunting fear that somebody somewhere might be happy and doing well. Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent editorials 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z Never mind that Mencken was racist, anti-Semitic and an advocate of eugenics and that Bryan was the compassionate progenitor of the New Deal. Opinion | Trump is evangelicals’ ‘dream president.’ Here’s why. 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z Not since HL Mencken has thinking about “the American language” – its diversity, its emancipatory potential – garnered nationwide attention, and he died over six decades ago. Donald Trump is changing our language. We need a vocabulary of resistance | Michelle Moyd and Yuliya Komska 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z In his day, Mencken was as influential in the US as George Bernard Shaw in Britain. The 100 best nonfiction books: No 49 – The American Language by HL Mencken 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z Mencken was proud of his satire of national backwardness and wasn’t surprised to get letters from readers. This Fake News Was Good Clean Fun 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z He also gave addresses at subsequent Mencken Club meetings, but eventually the two men grew apart as Spencer developed more than an academic fascination with fascism and white separatism. How the alt-right became racist: A short history of hate — Part 1 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z Mencken was talking about when he defined democracy as “the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.” Counties in Washington that rely most on Obamacare voted for Trump 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z The influential columnist HL Mencken declared: “It reveals, in cold-blooded, scientific terms, the sort of lives millions of Americans are leading.” How Trump took middle America 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z As an early 20th-century snapshot of American prose – the teeming variety of spoken American inevitably defeated even Mencken, as he freely admitted – The American Language remains a masterpiece of advocacy and entertainment. The 100 best nonfiction books: No 49 – The American Language by HL Mencken 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z Mencken, it was President Millard Fillmore, who revolutionized American hygiene by installing the first bathtub in the White House after he arrived in 1850. This Fake News Was Good Clean Fun 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z Despite Gottfried’s unwillingness to be associated with Spencer’s advocacy for eugenics, that was far from the only exhibition of racism to be featured at Mencken Club gatherings. How the alt-right became racist: A short history of hate — Part 1 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z Mencken defined Puritanism as “the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.” You can leave your hat on: Scholar says Puritans were sexy 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z HL Mencken declared: “It reveals, in cold-blooded, scientific terms, the sort of lives millions of Americans are leading.” The view from Middletown: a typical US city that never did exist 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z In this formulation, Mencken was articulating a vision of American language and society as progressive, innovative and ceaselessly modern. The 100 best nonfiction books: No 49 – The American Language by HL Mencken 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z Mencken was only joking, but the lessons of what came to be known as the bathtub hoax resonate in our own day as Americans struggle anew to navigate between fact and fiction in the media. This Fake News Was Good Clean Fun 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z Mencken And quite a few have been repeatedly elected to high office doing so. It Lives. Birtherism Is Diminished but Far From Dead. 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z Mencken was that nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public. The business of outrage 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z Here, he stumbled on the work of HL Mencken, and had his Damascene moment: 100 best nonfiction books: No 36 – Black Boy: A Record of Childhood and Youth by Richard Wright (1945) 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z Mencken was certainly one of the first prominent Americans to call himself a libertarian, and many of his views fit comfortably within that philosophy, broadly defined. The ‘sage of Baltimore’ would not have supported Donald Trump 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z After I mailed in a copy of Mencken’s hoax article and his subsequent disclaimer, the erroneous tribute was quietly removed. This Fake News Was Good Clean Fun 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z Mencken writes that it was “common” for a woman to do so in the U.S. Now You Know: Why Do We Have Middle Names? 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z In many ways, Mencken’s politics aligned with Bryan’s. The Trump Before Trump 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z Better still, Mencken was introducing the young writer to a new world: Spinoza, Gustave Flaubert, Tolstoy, Mark Twain, Thomas Hardy, TS Eliot, and many more. 100 best nonfiction books: No 36 – Black Boy: A Record of Childhood and Youth by Richard Wright (1945) 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z Mencken said that going to a Convention was something between attending a revival and watching a hanging. How to Steal an Election 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z That last bit may be an exaggeration, but Mencken biographers back up his account of the tale’s spread. This Fake News Was Good Clean Fun 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z Nobody ever went broke by underestimating the intelligence of the American public, goes the famous line by the US editor Henry Louis Mencken. Market forces 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z Mencken’s sneers do not make for pleasant reading now. The Trump Before Trump 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z “It’s only human nature to try to find some empirical evidence that something exists beyond death,” Mencken said. With Haunted History Trail, New York invites ghost hunters 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z “At first blush, the Republican National Convention at Cleveland next week promises to be a very dull show,” H. L. Mencken wrote in 1924, when the incumbent, Calvin Coolidge, was the all but assured nominee. How to Steal an Election 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z Mencken, who died in 1956, might have been amused by what the internet has wrought, but he probably wouldn’t be surprised. This Fake News Was Good Clean Fun 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z The south of today is not, to quote its most historically famous critic HL Mencken, “the Sahara of the Bozart”. America’s south embraces bigotry of the past, but a new coalition is fighting back 2016-04-16T04:00:00Z It began in the usual way, with college newspapers and reading H. L. Mencken and things like that. Thomas Frank: Democrats just aren’t that concerned about income inequality 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z Yet it’s hardly a passing fad, according to Carson Mencken, sociology department chairman at Baylor University and an expert on paranormal believers. With Haunted History Trail, New York invites ghost hunters 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z Mencken; over the affection and loyalty of their son; even over who would be first at the door when First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt came to visit the Knopf office. Mrs. Knopf, Invisible Tastemaker 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z Mencken’s heirs “You are the most dishonest human beings on Earth.” Heard on the trail 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z Mencken in making the case that Donald Trump’s campaign is built on cynicism. H.L. Mencken had something else to say about Donald Trump 2016-02-05T05:00:00Z Mencken — that no one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people — and applied it to politics. Just how dumb does Donald Trump think Americans are? 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z Samuel Johnson would have called Mencken "a very good hater." A Field Guide to Spin 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z But even the dyspeptic Mencken conceded that the speechwriter made a difference: Welliver “knows how to write simply and charmingly, but he is also a fellow with a sense of humor.” A Century of Political Spin 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z In 1966, he acquired control of The American Mercury, a magazine H. L. Mencken helped found, and made it a mouthpiece for his ideas. Willis Carto, Far-Right Figure and Holocaust Denier, Dies at 89 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z Mencken, and used it to promote his far-right views. Willis Carto, influential figure of the far right, dies at 89 2015-10-31T04:00:00Z Republican voters, to paraphrase Mencken, know what they want and are getting it good and hard. The GOP establishment’s impotent panic: Why they can’t make Donald Trump & Ben Carson go away 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z Dawkins established his reputation with singular scientific achievements, not as a modern-day Mencken. Enough Richard Dawkins bashing: Let us praise a hero of science and atheism 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z Which recalls a quip by the American political satirist HL Mencken. A Point of View: The rude, vulgar US presidential election - BBC News 2015-09-12T04:00:00Z Mencken, who was commenting on democracy, Trump gives people what they want and he gives it to them good and hard. Why we can’t dismiss Donald Trump 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z “H.L. Mencken said, ‘The West begins where the rainfall ends,’ ” Jones said. Chambers Bay: A course with a real attitude 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z Mencken said nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public, but long before him a far wiser man said there’s no disputing taste. Karen Allen’s brilliant comeback: A “Raiders of the Lost Ark” star forsakes Hollywood for a brilliant, blue-collar film 2015-05-24T04:00:00Z When Stewart asks about the Mencken quote, the comment about the quality of the speeches versus the quality of the criticism unfurls inside my head; I want to shout: I have something good to say! Being on 'The Daily Show With Jon Stewart' 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z "Democracy," said Mencken, "is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." A Point of View: The rude, vulgar US presidential election - BBC News 2015-09-12T04:00:00Z Described by the American journalist HL Mencken as "the greatest story since the crucifixion", the 1936 abdication crisis shook both Parliament and the nation. Memorable speeches from 750 years of Parliament 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z Was it Mencken, or Montaigne who said, "Hypocrisy is the obeisance that Vice pays to Virtue"? I watched my many nephews forestall marriage as long as reasonably practicable. Gay Marriage Case Offers G.O.P. Political Cover 2015-01-18T05:00:00Z That sound you hear is H. L. Mencken, laughing from the grave. N.C.A.A. Reaches Deal to Restore Wins for Joe Paterno and Penn State 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z Mencken quote from the book; when I tell him that Fran had OK’d my writing the book on the condition that I make the Daily Show, he says: Done! Being on 'The Daily Show With Jon Stewart' 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z H. L. Mencken The stupid part is that people who can barely make it financially fall for supporting candidates who support only the very wealthy. Kicking Dodd-Frank in the Teeth 2015-01-10T05:00:00Z Mencken recalled “the despondent air of New Yorkers coming up from the ferries to work.” How a Ferry Ride Helped Make Brooklyn the Original Suburb 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z Mencken spoke for many when he mocked President Calvin Coolidge: How To Succeed In Business And Government Without Really Trying: Calvin Coolidge And The Roaring Twenties 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z Mencken was right that there is an easy solution to every human problem—and that it is invariably neat, plausible, and wrong. The Dreaded 'Green Blob' Is The Most Dire Threat To Bees 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z “No had seen this sensitive, amiable, tolerant side of Mencken,” Rodgers said. New Mencken book features unpublished material 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z Mencken, is “the haunting fear that someone, somewhere may be happy.” Voting with your wallet 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z The best book of pure journalistic accounts of executions by hanging remains August Mencken’s 1942 compilation, “By the Neck.” Book review: ‘The Thirteenth Turn: A History of the Noose,’ by Jack Shuler Mencken was the first of many critics to articulate the modern narrative about the Roaring Twenties. How To Succeed In Business And Government Without Really Trying: Calvin Coolidge And The Roaring Twenties 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z Mencken described a mensch this way: “an upright, honorable, decent person” and “someone of consequence.” Genius, Mensch, Sad Clown: Dissecting What Robin Williams Really Meant to People 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z In his dispatches, Mencken had mocked Dayton as a “universal joke” and had more to say privately. New Mencken book features unpublished material 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z H. L. Mencken became a literary adviser, and his picture hangs there, too. Where the Harlem Renaissance blossomed in Virginia, with poet Anne Spencer Mencken said it best: “There is always a well-known solution to every human problem — neat, plausible, and wrong.” Beware a Balanced Budget Amendment or Other Easy Deficit Fixes 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z Then again, as Mencken didn’t quite say, one of the joys of politics is that sometimes people do get what they ask for, get it good and hard. If China Stops Being A Currency Manipulator Will The Yuan Rise Or Fall? 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z Mencken reported on the extraordinary steps Cleveland took to satisfy the Republican Party. 5 Reasons to Be Delighted and Worried About a GOP Convention in Cleveland 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z “A medical historian could look at what Mencken wrote about public health. You could also look at his theater criticism. Mencken wrote wonderful, original theater criticism. You have material for anyone with creativity and imagination.” New Mencken book features unpublished material 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z Mencken, and a letter from Langston Hughes urging her to send a photo of herself to Ebony magazine, for a piece on black poetry. Where the Harlem Renaissance blossomed in Virginia, with poet Anne Spencer Mencken once said of Mr. Hazlitt that he was “one of the few economists in human history who could really write.” Today's Economist: Inflationphobia, Part II 2013-07-16T04:03:00Z I think that, was it Mencken, who said, “For every problem, there’s a solution that is simple, easy and absolutely wrong.” Ferguson: Let's Do Inclusive Research, Address Causes of Aggression and Mental Illness, Play Video Games with Our Kids and Talk about Content 2013-01-28T12:56:13Z Mencken pronounced Gaynor a "great political philosopher and a great soul" who "began an heroic but vain effort to give New York decent government." City Room: The Mayor of Sarcastic, Witty and Candid Letters 2013-01-01T22:18:38Z “I whispered a warning to him, and he thrust it into the fly of his trousers,” Mencken writes. New Mencken book features unpublished material 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z Mencken once quipped that wealth in America means making a little more money than your brother-in-law. Baby, You're a Rich Man 2012-12-29T03:50:21Z At points, Mencken’s comments seemed not just inside-baseball but to contain inside information. Federal Prosecutors Let It All Hang Out On The Internet 2012-11-22T16:28:01Z Mencken say every convention gets the poems it deserves? Salon limerick contest 2012-09-04T14:29:00Z Mencken — about literature, culture, politics and, as he liked to call it, “the birds and the bees.” American Writer Gore Vidal Dead at 86 2012-08-01T15:05:34Z “That there was a touch of mental unsoundness in Bryan I always believed, just as I believe the same of F.D. Roosevelt,” Mencken wrote. New Mencken book features unpublished material 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z Too often, as Mencken infers, we look for clarity where there is none and, as a result, striving for simplicity leads us into a blind alley. Effectively Guide Your Team to Tackle Problems (Big and Small) 2012-07-26T18:40:19Z Eweman’s comments generally appeared in support of Mencken’s, and criticized figures in the case. Federal Prosecutors Let It All Hang Out On The Internet 2012-11-22T16:28:01Z Mencken If you live in a swing state, your nation sends its apologies. Behind President Obama's Inaccurate Abortion Ad 2012-07-11T19:05:30Z A sentimental bachelor or widower in the lonesome latter years hasn't any more chance with a determined young nurse of the unfair sex than a "snowbird in hell"—as Brother Mencken phrases it. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z In his preface to “Heathen Days,” Mencken jokingly warned that he had enough files in his cellar “to entertain a whole herd of nascent Ph.Ds.” New Mencken book features unpublished material 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z "For every complex problem," wrote essayist H. L. Mencken, "there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong." Effectively Guide Your Team to Tackle Problems (Big and Small) 2012-07-26T18:40:19Z As a judge, Gaynor wrote thousands of letters about the Bill of Rights, which Mencken praised as “magnificent expositions of Jeffersonian doctrine.” City Room: A Mayor With a Taste for Cervantes 2012-01-26T19:08:18Z Mencken manuscripts will hold their value better than a lot of tech stocks, I'll wager.” R&D Champions 2011-05-27T12:31:11Z "Gusto," as H. L. Mencken in the Huneker article of his "Book of Prefaces" says, "unquenchable, contagious, inflammatory." Turns about Town 2011-05-13T02:00:09.213Z Please let me go—” “Oh, spirit of H. L. Mencken, hear me!” the New Yorker prayed. Girl Alone 2011-01-27T03:00:36.117Z David Graham Phillips, the author in question, had just been christened by H. L. Mencken as “the leading American novelist.” Essay: The Deadliest Book Review 2011-01-14T17:10:53Z That nasty budget shortfall will test an axiom laid out bluntly by H. L. Mencken: “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.” Texas Tribune: For G.O.P. Freshmen, Peril Amid Prosperity 2011-01-07T04:13:45Z Mencken once wrote: “There is always a well-known solution to every human problem -- neat, plausible, and wrong.” Busting Unions With Bankruptcy Isn’t Chapter 9 Way: Joe Mysak 2011-01-06T03:16:54Z Christopher D. Bader, F. Carson Mencken and Joseph O. Baker, the authors of "Paranormal America," offer a possible reason for our dismissive attitude. 3 books on UFOs 2010-10-13T04:00:00Z The days of Pulitzer, Hearst and Mencken are long gone. Is the News of the World's phone-hacking really justified? Yes, sometimes 2010-09-04T23:06:00Z Mencken's timeless observation that "No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public." Glenn Beck's religious rally nothing new 2010-09-02T01:01:00Z And to think that Mencken, who died in Baltimore in 1956, reached that conclusion without the benefit of having observed politics as it is practiced these days in New York. NYC: Paying for Special Elections When Officials Depart 2010-03-19T00:19:00Z His mother, a daughter of Mencken, cabinet secretary to the king, was a woman of strong character and ability, who had been brought up at Berlin under the “Aufkl�rung.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" And he'd been a friend of Henry Mencken back when that old nonconformist was tearing down contemporary society seemingly largely for the fun involved in the tearing. Status Quo An excellent idea!" cried Major Mencken, enthusiastically, "Write one chapter and then repeat it verbatim throughout the book, changing only the name of the principal character. The Merry-Go-Round Back in Mencken's day the enemies were Catholics and Jews. Glenn Beck's religious rally nothing new 2010-09-02T01:01:00Z Mr. Mencken explains why the use of "sick" for "ill" is taboo in England, except among the very youngest Realists. Confessions of a Book-Lover The kind of thing I feel about the United States is the kind of thing Mencken sneers at. Gigolo Mencken — that you go into the news business because it gives you a front-row seat. 100 New Yorkers of the 1970s And as H. L. Mencken has pointed out, "The Pilsner motive runs through the book from cover to cover." The Merry-Go-Round Mencken, fellow sufferer, for sending me a copy of this noble pamphlet. Shandygaff It is very remarkable that Mr. Mencken's audacious disregard of English grammar in theory has not impaired the clearness of his point of view and of his own style. Confessions of a Book-Lover The later generations of the Menckens—those immediately preceding me—had found their way to Prussia in the Foreign Office and about the Court. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 10 Prince Otto Von Bismarck, Count Helmuth Von Moltke, Ferdinand Lassalle We're living in an era — to use Mencken's phrase — of the "Sahara of the beaux arts." 100 New Yorkers of the 1970s This book, indeed, cannot fail to delight General Mencken. The Merry-Go-Round Fräulein Mencken, who was married at the age of sixteen, was a clever and ambitious woman. Bismarck and the Foundation of the German Empire If Sir Oliver Lodge and Sir Conan Doyle want really to please a small but discriminating public, let them induce Herbert Spencer to analyze Mr. Mencken's statements on the growth of the English language! Confessions of a Book-Lover Baron von Stein has quoted my grandfather Mencken as an honest, strongly Liberal official. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 10 Prince Otto Von Bismarck, Count Helmuth Von Moltke, Ferdinand Lassalle Mencken on Barkley: a competent rabble-rouser, but plenty of empty seats. U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1976 July - December The Days of H. L. Mencken: happy days, newspaper days, heathen days. U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1974 July - December Why Mencken eschews the theatre; scents, sweatshop size, buncombe keep Baltimore sage from theatre. U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1974 January - June If dead authors could write after the manner in which Mr. Andrew Lang has written to them, I should like to read Herbert Spencer's opinions of Mr. Mencken's volumes. Confessions of a Book-Lover How to be a book collector, from Ibsen on up the Mencken family tree. U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1973 July - December Mencken thanks Thomas, rare political hullabaloo by really intelligent man. U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1976 July - December SEE Mencken, H. L. A master of gladiators. U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1969 July - December Mencken it shall be in some connection more pleasant, and that here I will not mention them at all. Figures of Earth There is one Americanism, however, against which, as far as I can find, Mr. Mencken does not protest. Confessions of a Book-Lover From Dana to Stevenson, from Harte to Mencken, San Francisco has captured the hearts of a train of illustrious admirers. Fascinating San Francisco Truman's election: Mencken says country jolly well deserves it. U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1976 July - December SEE Mencken, H. L. A new dictionary of quotations on historical principles from ancient and modern sources. U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1969 July - December "Baroja stands for the modern Spanish mind at its most enlightened," says H. L. Mencken. Youth and Egolatry Of all American writers Mr. H. L. Mencken is the most adventurous, and one might almost say the cleverest. Confessions of a Book-Lover Mr. H. L. Mencken is, perhaps, the outstanding victim of this depravity of indifference which more and more characterizes the enemy. Nonsenseorship Mencken in gloomy mood, view of candidates leaves him uninspired. U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1976 July - December Mr. Mencken and Mr. Dreiser have vigorously expressed this annoyance with American tradition. Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism H. L. Mencken and George Jean Nathan for many years have sung praises of the Moral in the Smart Set. Moral Mr. Mencken truly says that the weakest courses in our universities are those which concern themselves with written and spoken English. Confessions of a Book-Lover "Main Street," a volume fathered by Mencken, Freud, and the other Chaos-Bringers, leaps into prominence as a best seller. Nonsenseorship Truman and herring, Mencken meditates on great Red hunt. U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1976 July - December Mr. Mencken wishes to drive us out of Colonialism. Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism Well, you see, Henry Haydock got some of this Mencken's medicine from one of the Indians. A Parody Outline of History Mencken will be arrested and burned in public. Nonsenseorship Ten years ago the name of Mencken would have stood against the world. Nonsenseorship And if we grow too insistent, as has Mencken, they put an end to the business by embracing us and pulling our fangs by disgusting us with their stupidity. Nonsenseorship But thanks to the Lord, some good has come out of this evil: that medicine man, Mencken, was standing outside looking in at the rumpus, smiling to himself I guess. A Parody Outline of History |
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