George Will
George Will
George Frederick Willis an American newspaper columnist and political commentator. He is a Pulitzer Prize–winner known for his conservative commentary on politics. In 1986, The Wall Street Journal called him "perhaps the most powerful journalist in America," in a league with Walter Lippmann...
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth4 May 1941
perfect thank-god stones
Then hast our the Red Stone perfect with less labour, expense of time and costs, for the which ever thank God.
stones substance body
The body is the substance of the stone.
religious justice awful
To that movement, consecrated by religious principle, sustained by an awful sense of justice, and cheered by the brightest hopes of future good, all our powers, talents, and attainments are devoted.
men intellectual suffering
We shall suffer no attachment to literature, no taste for abstract discussion, no love of purely intellectual theories, to seduce us from our devotion to the cause of the oppressed, the down trodden, the insulted and injured masses of our fellow men.
shining soul body
Also there is a similitude of a Trinity shining in the body, soul and spirit.
cutting kansas cash
You do not cut a check in the state of Kansas to John Doe, executioner. The executioner is paid in cash so there's no trail to him
way calling get-over
He still has the same way of calling to me, as if I'm still new to him, as if he has yet to get over me.
sports football winning
At the base of it was the urge, if you wanted to play football, to knock someone down, that was what the sport was all about, the will to win closely linked with contact.
crazy writing thinking
Well, I have to write. A lot of people forget that. They think I’m sort of crazy baffoon who can’t make up his mind what to do in life
jealous style generations
I remember being awed by it - the uniqueness and nicety of style - and I suspect I was a bit jealous because we were more or less of the same generation.
editors biographies pleasure
It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury.
relationship book stories
My favorite monologue in the book is Kate Harrington's story of her relationship with Truman.
generations bass
Rick Bass is one of the best writers of his generation.
art attention distraction
Art has something to do with the arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.