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Saturday, October 18, 2008

Saturday October 18, 2008

Filed under: General — m759 @ 7:07 am
Allure
(continued from
July 3, 2006)

This morning’s New York Times
has an obituary for the father
of the paper’s executive editor,
Bill Keller:

NY Times obituaries Saturday, Oct. 18, 2008

For more on George Keller and on
the more colorful Levi Stubbs,
who also died on Friday,
see the Times‘s AP obituaries.

Keller’s son Bill has emphasized
what he calls the “allure” of the
Times‘s lifestyles coverage.

An example of such coverage–
a 2006 story on visual art in Mexico
that included a reference to…

Damien Hirst’s gory new series
 ‘The Death of God–
Towards a Better Understanding
of Life Without God
Aboard the Ship of Fools.’

For descriptions of such life,
I prefer the literary art of
Robert Stone– in particular,
Stone’s novel
A Flag for Sunrise.

Credit must be given to
the Times for an excellent
1981 review of that novel.

(This was well before
the younger Keller
joined the Times in 1984.)

My own views on life are
less like those of either Keller
than like those of Stone and
perhaps of Levi Stubbs, the
other father figure who
died on Friday.

Related material:

“Yes, you’ll be goin’ loco
down in Acapulco,
the magic down there
 is so strong.”
— Levi Stubbs   

The Four Tops: Goin' Loco Down in Acapulco

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