[ExI] Alcor and Ted Williams

[Mike Dougherty]

On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 9:03 AM, John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> wrote:

> In today’s New Your Times is a review of a new biography of Ted Williams,
> his "wacky and pathetic” death is mentioned and so is "an outfit called
> Alcor” who cut off his head:
> ======
>
> Mr. Bradlee, who was a reporter and editor for The Boston Globe for 25
> years (and whose journalistic pedigree descends from his father, the former
> executive editor of The Washington Post), writes a graceful sentence and
> crafts a cogent paragraph. His authorial attitude is one of restraint,
> generally letting the flood of his facts and quotations from interviews
> speak for themselves. “The Kid” has neither the hagiographic sheen of
> recent biographies of Yogi Berra and Willie Mays, nor the gleeful
> legend-puncturing of Richard Ben Cramer’s celebrated portrait of Joe
> DiMaggio.
>
>
I wonder how many Red Sox fans are already familiar with the term
"hagiographic"

I know that wasn't your point, but I read that as an indicator that the
author is more on a rant than trying to inform or educate anyone.
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