[PRL] Fwd: Writing With Miles Davis - NYTimes.com

[Mitchell Wand]

Forwarded with permission.  --Mitch

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From: Richard Cobbe <cobbe at ccs.neu.edu>
Date: Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 6:32 PM
Subject: Re: [PRL] Writing With Miles Davis - NYTimes.com
To: Mitchell Wand <wand at ccs.neu.edu>


On Sat, Oct 06, 2012 at 05:04:24PM -0400, Mitchell Wand wrote:
> Good advice: write like Miles:  Less is more.
>
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http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/06/writing-with-miles-davis/?src=rechp

The same could well be said of presentations.

Bishop Clay Lee, in the homily at my grandfather's funeral back in June,
related an incident in which he and my grandfather had attended a lecture.
After the talk was over, Bishop Lee asked my grandfather his opinion, and
my grandfather replied, "It was a good lecture, but he missed a great many
opportunities to stop."

Somewhat unfortunately, the story didn't have the best effect, because
Bishop Lee told it in the *middle* of the homily, but his lack of comic
timing doesn't detract from the point.  :-)

Richard
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