"He'd give a terrific talk, but there'd still be the distance.
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A terrific talk with a terrific man.
So, prompted by WNYC's terrific talk show host Brian Lehrer, who asked listeners if there was a "new progressive patriotism" in the wake of the election, I wrote a piece about these powerful and surprising feelings in the current Chronicle of Higher Education.
We are in the provincial England of "Black Swan Green" — a world of possessive lower-middle-class parents, bad English cars, inventive slang, and terrific music (Talking Heads' "Fear of Music," the Police's "Zenyattà Mondatta," a "Quadrophenia" T-shirt).
"We can reap terrific dividends by talking to these young people directly in a way they understand".
That voice, which betrays only a hint of Barker's blue-collar upbringing in postwar Liverpool, is a terrific instrument for talking about his long career as a man with a knack for, as he puts it, "scaring the bejesus out of people".
Give it to someone special for Christmas: there's a terrific offer at the Talking Bookshop, both volumes for £110 instead of £150.
The program of 16 short videos is terrific, especially Seth Miller's "Talking Cats Play Pattycake," Billy Browne's "Rufus Tower" and "I am Maru 4," featuring the incomparable Maru of Internet fame.
