Town hall is grateful for the opportunity to invite seattle answers in exchanges of issues, ideas and creativity even when we want do it in person. Well produce online content through the fought and new year if circumstances allow to host live streams from the building, meanwhile if you cant get enough time on zoom or youtube, our past talks are available in yesterdayow or podcast form. Back to tonights program. The event dill run 30 to 40 multiples followed by q a, steve and chelsea will ask your questioned from the ask a question field. Also, know that you can view the event here on crowdcast or on the youtube page. If you want to utilize that platform, closed captioning feature. Townhall is adding new event thursday podcast every day. Upcoming policemans including women odd activism, to bend the course of climb change, and overcoming americas obsession with economic efficiency, a book about the past and future of american isolationism, as well as howard gardner, David Eagleman and h
About how great i am, it just happens to me because i have that experience of imagining myself in the other persons position so much more im going to move on to audience questions. Peggy asks the opposite of what my question was. I do you feel like your writing was affected your drinking when you were drinking . What was it that you were held back from or . Guest this is something i talk about in another chapter about writing a column and thinking its the greatest thing in the world, sitting and knocking back a few or whatever and waking up in the morning and looking at it and thinkingthis makes no sense. Or this isnt accurate. So theres just that very baselevel of its just not as good writing and its not Good Journalism to be drunk. You cant write as well. And i think i really limited my ambition. I think the idea of writing a book would have been impossible. I told myself a story about myself which is that i cant write more than 500 words because i dont have that kind of Attention Sp
Good evening. Im the executive director of town hall seattle. This is richard white, our civics series in this our insideout season of town hall. Its a special year. Our civic programs are always sponsored by boeing, the Real Networks foundation, kuow and the amazon literary partnership. Dr. White will speak for 3540 minutes and then have time for questions. This mic im using will rotate that way and be available to you for ill do to rotate for the q a later. We ask that you keep your questions concise and as we like to say in the form of a question so we get to as many folks as possible over the course of the evening. Youre sure to have a lot of questions. And then afterwards well have copies of the republic for which it stands, available for purchase and for dr. Whites signature at the Elliott Bay Book Company Table back there its a big, thick book. He is going to cover a lot of material but left plenty left and unheard. Thats not a sales pitch or anything. Just the truth, pick up a
And wrapping up is mitchell sue covers account of the attack on the u. S. Mission in benghazi, libya, on september 11th, 2012. For more information visit indiebound. Org. Gloos were pleased to be joined on our set right outside the history and biography room by former justice of the Supreme Court, sandra day oconnor. This is her fifth book, stories from the history of the Supreme Court out of order. Ourt justice oconnor, when did you discover that you enjoyed writing . Guest oh, goodness. All you do as a justice is write, so nothing changed there. And there were just lots of things to write about and tell about. Now, what are you doing at the book festival today . T because i dont think youre talking about your book. Guest no, not really. I know Jim Billington whos head of the library of congress, and my brother has a new book out. And so Jim Billington told me i had to bring my brother to the conference, so thats why were here. Host and you were in conversation with alan dray whn is a
What is called the evasive passive. And accordingly, all the classic style guides advice against using the passive voice. Use the active voice. The active voice is usually more direct and vigorous than the passive. Many sentences can be made lively by substituting a transgent for a per puncher to perfunctory. Notice something fishingal the advice . It uses the passive voice to tell people not to use the passive voice. Similarly, the other iconic body of advice for writing happed out to every college freshman, George Orwells politics of the english language in which he says a mixture of vague yes and sheer incompetence is the most marked characteristic of modern prose. I list the way that prose construction is dodged. The passive voice is used in preference to the active which contains not one but two examples of the passive voice. Now, the passive voice, and, for that matter, any english construction could not have survived in the language for 1500 years unless it was doing something u