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Mencken

[ US /ˈmɛŋkən/ ]
NOUN
  1. United States journalist and literary critic (1880-1956)

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  • Inspired by his hero H. L. Mencken, always on the lookout for hypocrisy, Thurman found it in the uneven way that color prejudice is applied to dark-skinned women.
  • At the time of the first Kinsey study on sexuality, H.L. Mencken wrote, "All that humorless document really proves is (a) that all men lie when they are asked about their adventures in amour, and (b) that pedagogues are singularly naïve and credulous creatures. Dirty talk? New sex survey's surprising stats
  • Mencken remain inarguably correct in their assessment of the public's gullibility and appetite. Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Season of the Witch
  • (Wood had read H.L. Mencken's debunking of the American "booboisie" and, for a time, agreed with it.) American Idol
  • Mencken might have asked: How can one "radicalize" a Muslim when he is already "radicalized" by his creed? The Rule of Reason
  • But Twain, Howells, and James were jeeringly described by Mencken as " draft - dodgers ".
  • It’s the story of a man-eating plant that eventually takes over the world, told in jaunty 1960s-style doo-wop, written by a little-known team called Ashman and Mencken who would eventually fade into obscurity after producing little-known Disney musicals like The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, and Aladdin. It's Official
  • Most people didn't recognize the quote, but Simpson was probably attempting to channel H.L. Mencken's line about government itself, which Mencken called "a milch-cow with 125 million teats" (the population of the United States at the time). Richard (RJ) Eskow: Annoying Alan Simpson: The 310,000,001st Reason to Vote
  • Henry Louis Mencken, American journalist, editor, critic.
  • Whereas Twain on the warpath was a sharp shooting rifleman and Mencken laid about with the broadsword, Brooks's literary weapon is the tweezers.
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