Johnson liked the man but disapproved of his poetic manner: "he puts his words out of the common order, seeming to think, with some later candidates for fame, that not to write prose is certainly to write poetry".
But one might also add that the subject itself is "canonical" — the tale of sexual transgression and punishment in enclosed American communities is, after all, one that reaches from Hawthorne to such later candidates as Updike's "Couples".
But one might also add that the subject itself is "canonical"—the tale of sexual transgression and punishment in enclosed American communities is, after all, one that reaches from Hawthorne to such later candidates as Updike's "Couples".
Later candidates have done a better job.
Even now, decades later, candidates can still make headway by accusing an opponent of being like "Pete Wilson".
A day later, another candidate for the council elections was similarly killed on Mosul's outskirts.
Later, presidential candidate Herman Cain will return for the network's "2012: One on One" series.
Later, the candidate proclaimed: "This is a movement and we have to go all the way".
But some of you stay with me years later – a candidate from a failing school, simmering with hostility, who magically transformed when given the chance to talk about something he'd enjoyed reading.
For example, in 1998, when he was a trial lawyer, former North Carolina senator (and later presidential candidate) John Edwards reported a salary of $360,000 and profits of $5 million from an S corp he formed to funnel income from his law partnership.
