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RIP Diana Douglas

#1 Post by themanintheseersuckersuit » Mon Jul 06, 2015 6:04 pm

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituar ... tuary.html

Her fortunes changed when, in May 1943, Life magazine featured her as its cover girl in a checked blouse and matching parasol. Kirk Douglas, by then preparing for war service in the US Navy, saw the magazine and exclaimed to his sceptical room-mates: “Hey, I know that girl! And you know what else? I’m going to marry her.” The couple wed six months later.
Suitguy is not bitter.

feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive

The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.

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