My high school English teacher, Helen Foley, who helped me become who I am (at least the salutary dimensions), warned me against writing in clichés. These are the antitheses of thinking, she said, and she was so right. In all the years since, when I’m writing and a cliché floats to mind as an effective… Continue reading On the peril of cliché: Helen Foley, Peter Levine, Hannah Arendt
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Helen Foley (School Teacher)
Helen Foley died in 1998 and I didn’t even know it. Not a month has passed without me thinking of what came of her and I often went online to try to find out, but nothing ever surfaced. But now tonight I looked again and here rises to the surface a death notice 13 years… Continue reading Helen Foley (School Teacher)
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