16 May 2010

Sprezzatura

A demonstration of one of the many reasons I admire Barack Obama. This story was related by Christopher Hitchens in his 1 May Guardian review of the new Obama biography, The Bridge, by the editor of the New Yorker.

When things became emotional [at Harvard Law Review meetings, during Obama's time as editor], he would counsel his team: "Remember: nobody reads it."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/may/01/bridge-barack-obama-david-remnick

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