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#122932 02/15/04 05:26 PM
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Whew, I can't tell whether the writer is more praising the book or venting spleen. But, One of the skills required of a journalist these days is the ability to shout across Downing Street at persons entering Number 10 does seem to verify my guess that this source is the London Times.

I like this: As a category, mumbo-jumbo is highly elastic. True! I guess most peoples' beliefs are probably seen as mumbo-jumbo by somebody, somewhere.


#122934 02/16/04 09:05 PM
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does seem to verify my guess that this source is the London Times.

Could actually be any one of a dozen or more papers. Including The Times, of course, but since Murdoch took them over they prefer making it up to asking questions


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The Reagans inevitably receive stick for trafficking in astrology;

receive stick? I think I understand, but haven't heard this grammarization...



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#122936 02/16/04 09:59 PM
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Ah well, you should probably stick to American publications, then ...


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Among the tainted areas he parades for scorn, and variously warranted full of “obscurist bunkum”, “swirling hogwash” and “mendacious codswallop”, are: the fundamentalist anti-Western doctrines of Islam; the surviving belief in creationism; the New Age voodoo practices of a counter-Enlightenment....

Sounds great! I looked up this book on Amazon and it appears to have a slightly different title than in the review (perhaps a diff. title for U.S. market?)-- Shooting Out the Lights : A Short History of Modern Delusions. see http://makeashorterlink.com/?D2A726E67




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Eta

'Get stick' is more common, but then The Times Literary Supplement would hardly be likely to use a common (pun intended) word like 'get'.

Wonder where the idiom came from, though.

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