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Runtu : After a recitation of some / http://stihi.ru/2023/12/06/6072  /  generic platitudes the USA

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2023 : Автор Юри Рюнтю : Франко - Англо - Pусско-язычный писатель и журналист - / Yuri Matthew Ryuntyu: b. 1949: / избран в 1996 - академиком в 45 лет / http://www.stihi.ru/2015/12/17/3043 / и - был рекомендован на почетное избрание в 1995: академиком Беллой Ахмадулиной : 1937-2010 / http://www.stihi.ru/2012/09/29/5820 / и академиком Махмудом Эсамбаевым: 1924 - 2000 / http://www.stihi.ru/2009/09/06/4088 /. Фото: диплом - члена Академии Информатизации России: Москва 1996. Новая Академия - была создана - как элитарная интеллектуальная альтернатива - Академии наук СССР - пропитанной политизацией науки - искусства и литературы под руководством - ЦК КПСС СССР: с 1922 по 1991 ). Одновременно были избраны: академик - Борис Ельцин: 1931-2007, академик - Юрий Лужков: р. 1936 и другие Знаменитые Россияне, как и - писатель, драматург и журналист из Австралии: Юри Рюнтю - номинация за книгу - 1995 : " Руди Нуреев - Без Макияжа " - напечатано в Москве / http://stihi.ru/2012/10/01/5206 / . В тот год - Издательство Новости - опубликовало - только - ТРИ КНИГИ - " Михаил Горбачев - Биография: 2 тома " 1995 / http://stihi.ru/2016/01/28/8344 / и Майя Плисецкая " Я - Майя " 1995 / http://www.stihi.ru/2008/05/01/2682 / и - книгу Ю. Рюнтю, как друга Фредди Меркьюри: 1946-1991 / http://www.stihi.ru/2013/05/16/5478 / и личного секретаря - Рудольфа Нуреева: 1938-1993 - за последние 6 лет его жизни: Париж: Франция - Ли Галли: Италия - Лондон: Англия - Санкт - Петербург: Россия ( 1987 - 1993 ). С 1993 - 2001: автор создал - 35 книг о Россиянах : из 50 томов " Мировое Интеллектуальное Наследие Рудольфа Нуреева : Россия - ХX век " на ДВД-1: 10 000 стр. и 4 000 фотографий / http://stihi.ru/2013/08/03/1478 / BOOK : Iouri Runtu: Rudolf Noureev : La Mort a Paris : in French : Hео-трансцендентальный театр Рюнтю Юри: 2023.

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Runtu : After a recitation of some / http://stihi.ru/2023/12/06/6072  /  generic platitudes the USA

Then Askar contrasts Thomas’s shiftless brother with Lee’s driven sibling:

 “Lee’s brother, Mike Lee, can often be found pounding the pavement out on the campaign trail as the heavy favorited to be Utah’s next U.S. senator.”


 So many hackneyed phrases:

 “pounding the pavement,”

 “out on the campaign trail,”

“heavy favorited.”


But Mike Lee is only campaigning “often.”

 I wonder what he does with his spare time.

 Maybe he watches The View with Justice Thomas’s brother.

“And yet, despite all their differences, Justice Thomas and soon-to-be Justice Lee share such a close bond that they’re practically family.”

Ah, there’s the bond part, and it’s even “close.”

And who would have imagined that too such different guys

(the short but vestigial powerful

“dark brown” man and the “pale” Nordic god) would be so close?

“The story of Thomas and Lee began back in 1993.”

This sentence amounts to,

 “In 1993,” but our author is clearly

 not interested in introductory clauses

unless they carry the rhetorical weight of

 “In stark contrast” or

“And yet, despite their differences”

(a twofer, as it were).

“Lee was two years removed from law school at the University of Chicago, and Thomas summoned Lee to his chambers for a one-on-one interview to determine if Lee would be one of the four clerks Thomas hired for the 1994-95 Supreme Court term.”

Essentially, he’s describing a job interview for a clerkship, but instead we have Lee “summoned” to Thomas’s “chambers,” which I guess is supposed to sound more ominous and impressive, akin to Thomas More standing for truth and right before the English Court.

 (Of course, the image that popped into my head was that of George Costanza being lectured by the back of George Steinbrenner’s head, but I digress.)

I’ll spare you Lee’s report of the interview, but it’s in keeping with the tone of the article. Suffice it to say that from that one hour, he felt drawn to Thomas (whom he describes as “warm, generous, kind, fun-loving, [and] wonderful. …

(My) desire (and) longing to clerk for him was [sic] magnified tenfold”).

 But back to the author.

“As Thomas pointed out, the location of that 1993 meeting held special significance for Lee. Following the retirement of Justice Byron White from the Supreme Court earlier that year, Thomas had recently moved into the former chambers of White — the same justice for whom Lee’s father served a Supreme Court clerkship in the 1960s.”

That last sentence is a doozy. The long introductory clause is followed by “Thomas had recently moved into the former chambers of White,” which seems to loop back awkwardly to make sure we know it’s White’s chambers we’re talking about (as opposed to, say, the chamber of secrets or the Orem Chamber of Commerce).

Then we are told–after a superfluous dash–that Lee’s father had clerked for White in the sixties; we need to be told this was a “Supreme Court” clerkship so that we don’t assume Rex Lee was doing a 7-11 clerkship for Justice White.

Then it’s Thomas’s turn to gush about Lee:

“very conscientious, very serious, honest to a fault,

 a nice guy, and smart and precise in his words.”

And in case we missed it the first time, the author includes Thomas’s restatement of whom Rex Lee had clerked for in “those very same chambers.”

“During their year together at the Supreme Court, Thomas educated Lee and his three fellow clerks about how to be effective jurists.”

 Yep, that’s part of being a clerk.

Next:

 “Thomas also steeped them in

the sagacious nuggets of wisdom

he had gleaned from his grandfather,

 Myers Anderson,

and which would eventually be

a basis for Thomas’ 2007 memoir,

 ‘My Grandfather’s Son.'

” Dear God, make it stop.

 How in the hell do you steep someone in nuggets,

let alone sagacious ones?

And since when does someone glean nuggets? And am I the only one who noticed that the author uses the possessive apostrophe without a following ‘s,’ a style choice usually reserved only for Jesus?

Maybe he’s subtly expressing what he thinks of Justice Thomas.

But all that aside, I don’t know why we’re being told

 that Thomas shared his wisdom with his clerks,

 which he “gleaned” from his grandfather and

then wrote down in a book.

It almost sounds as if Thomas was using his clerks

as a preview audience for his book.

“The relationship between Thomas and Lee inexorably changed in 1996 when Lee’s father passed away following a prolonged bout with cancer.”

‘Inexorably’ is clearly the wrong word here, as it means ‘relentlessly,’ not permanently or drastically, as the author appears to mean.

And why reduce Rex Lee’s courageous and excruciatingly
long illness to a “bout,” as if he had just been fighting off a cold?

“At that point, Thomas began filling a more active
 mentoring role for his one-time clerk.”

 Now we get two paragraphs from Lee explaining how

Justice Thomas has become a close friend, confidant, and adviser.

Then the money question:

“So what was Thomas’ advice last year about the idea
that comes to fruition today as Lee joins the Utah Supreme Court?” Ouch.

 He inserts “last year” so that we know that the “idea” in question is Lee’s “career decision” to try to get the Supreme Court nomination, which Lee discussed two paragraphs earlier.

But even though we haven’t talked about an idea,

 it’s coming to fruition. After a recitation of

some generic platitudes from Lee

(“‘He felt that this was something that would be very enriching to me professionally and fulfilling and enjoyable,’ Lee said”),

we’re left pondering the little dark brown man steeping

a Nordic god in sagacious nuggets of wisdom until

 an idea comes to fruition. Somehow, watching daytime

 television each and every day doesn’t sound half bad.

 Beats reading the Deseret News.


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