How to Be Courteous
Civility is, according to some, a dying virtue in a world in which people shout at each other while making their points among the talking heads of television. Bombast and invective have become common communication tools. But you can eliminate ... [... more] eHow
Lexicon of Musical Invective: Critical Assaults on ... Who wrote advanced cat music? What commonplace theme is very much like Yankee Doodle? Which composer is a scoundrel and a giftless bastard? What opera would His Satanic Majesty turn out? Whose name suggests fierce whiskers stained with vodka? And finally, [... more]
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Lexicon of Musical Invective: Critical Assaults on ... A snakeful of critical venom aimed at the composers and the classics of 19th- and 20th-century music, this collection of nasty barbs culled mostly from newspapers and magazines makes for hilarious reading and belongs on the shelf of everyone who loves--- [... more]
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Cicero on the Attack: Invective and Subversion in the ... Eight new essays, from a distinguished international cast, examine the techniques of Cicero's verbal aggression. Analysis includes political and forensic context but also Cicero's own formal theory of rhetoric and his debts to other genres, literary and [... more]
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