“Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom.”

— John Kenneth Galbraith

"H.L. Mencken," The Washington Post (14 September 1980); reprinted in A View from the Stands (1986)

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American economist and diplomat 1908–2006

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