Mark's review
Fear and Loathing in America : The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist by Hunter S. Thompson
June 18, 1973
Woody Creek, CO
John Holdorf
AL Johnson Library
Union College
Cranford, NJ 07016
Dear John:
Bill Greider of the Washington Post has pulled himself together long enough to forward (to me) your letter of 5/25... and he also sent along a copy of his letter to you, in re: The Meaning of the Word "Cazart".
Surprising as it might seem to those of us in The Trade, as it were, Bill's definition of the word is essentially correct. His dim Appalachian background has been both the curse & the catapult of his career at the Post. There is also a thin Princeton influence, which probably explains why he missed the root meaning of the word...
"Cazart" goes beyond Greider's surface definition of mere shock & surprise; it also implies an almost doom-rooted acceptance of whatever grim situation has suddenly emerged. Bill's Ivy League/Foggy Bottom background probably explains the missing dimension in his understanding of the word- to wit: &quo...more
Woody Creek, CO
John Holdorf
AL Johnson Library
Union College
Cranford, NJ 07016
Dear John:
Bill Greider of the Washington Post has pulled himself together long enough to forward (to me) your letter of 5/25... and he also sent along a copy of his letter to you, in re: The Meaning of the Word "Cazart".
Surprising as it might seem to those of us in The Trade, as it were, Bill's definition of the word is essentially correct. His dim Appalachian background has been both the curse & the catapult of his career at the Post. There is also a thin Princeton influence, which probably explains why he missed the root meaning of the word...
"Cazart" goes beyond Greider's surface definition of mere shock & surprise; it also implies an almost doom-rooted acceptance of whatever grim situation has suddenly emerged. Bill's Ivy League/Foggy Bottom background probably explains the missing dimension in his understanding of the word- to wit: &quo...more
