Mary McCarthy

This recalls Mary McCarthy's famous attack on Lillian Hellman: "Every word she writes is a lie, including 'and' and 'the.'"

John McQuaid: The Media's Outrage Deficit 2008

The fact is, to paraphrase Mary McCarthy, that everything that comes out of the Bushies mouths, is a lie, including the punctuation.

"Michael Mukasey... is absolutely correct... that the issue of 'waterboarding' cannot be decided in the abstract." Ann Althouse 2007

For a bill that in reality will raise health costs and reduce patient choice, the name recalls Mary McCarthy's famous line about every word being a lie, including

StarTribune.com rss feed 2010

Bryan: To paraphrase Mary McCarthy talking about the marxiod fellow-traveller Lillian Hellman, everything the ... fredct: Haha, you guys are funny.

New England Republican 2009

I feel in the dove arguments as presented to me too much aesthetic distaste for the President, even when not lifted to the paranoid heights of MacBird; even the best of the negative accounts of our operations in South Vietnam, such as Mary McCarthy's vivid reports or Jonathan Schell's account of the destruction of Ben Sue, too much rely upon satirical descriptions of American officers and the grotesqueries of cultural superimposition.

On Not Being a Dove John Updike 2009

Something similar could be said about Mary McCarthy, another attractive writer, who claimed that Sontag was "the imitation me."

A Very Public Intellectual Joseph Epstein 2011

As early as 1946, Mary McCarthy was calling Hiroshima "a hole in human history."

Greg Mitchell: Writers and The Bomb: Novel Takes on the Nuclear Age Greg Mitchell 2011

While the suppression of nuclear truths stretched over decades, Hiroshima sank into "a hole in human history," as the writer Mary McCarthy observed.

Greg Mitchell: The Great Hiroshima Cover-up: How the U.S. Hid Shocking Historic Footage for Decades Greg Mitchell 2011

Mr. Ackerman thinks that the lawsuit against Mary McCarthy, which dragged on until Hellman's death in 1984 and cost McCarthy enormous sums in legal fees, tells us something about a "crisis in American moral discourse" dating back to the 1930s.

Don't Blame Mary McCarthy Barton Swaim 2011

Its point of departure is Mary McCarthy's famous quip about Lillian Hellman: Every word she writes is a lie, including 'and' and 'the.'

Don't Blame Mary McCarthy Barton Swaim 2011