July 21, 2009

Remembering Macrorie

Filed under: writing — jrice @ 11:04 am

in the datacloud.

She said she couldn’t stand the class because it didn’t offer any “hard-core scholarship. She said, “I don’t want to listen to some sorority chick telling what she said to a friend in the cafeteria line.”

one chapter epigraph in The Rhetoric of Cool quoted Uptaught as well:

A 1963 entry

Mr Rice wasn’t kidding; he’s not a kidding man. Many professors who had given their lives to this effort felt insulted, but I didn’t hear of one who came forward with a batch of lively student papers to prove Mr. Rice wrong.

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