I met one other American, and read the presentation abstract of a third.
You can read his presentation of it in the Proslogion.
The blurb for Owens's presentation read: "Secure your wealth with an 82-year-old proven, virtually 100% courtroom-proof structure.
On the day of your presentation, scour the web, read the newspapers, listen to the radio or watch television and find events or items that are relevant to your subject and your audience.
It would be as wrong-headed to read into the presentation of Kliman an attack on the genre of biography as to read, say, my presentation of Portnoy as an attack on the practice of masturbation.
It would be as wrongheaded to read into the presentation of Kliman an attack on the genre of biography as to read, say, my presentation of Portnoy as an attack on the practice of masturbation.
This jitteriness could be read in the presentation of clothes from Pringle of Scotland.
There's a whole social history to be read into the presentation.
There were only three judges: our chairman Walter Allen, an admirable novelist and critic, then confined to a wheelchair, so that I had to read out his presentation speech for him; Mary Wilson, the wife of the prime minister; and me.
