The World of Dr. Justice: Alfred Kazin

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Thursday, March 28, 2019

Aturdido Tableau

In the brilliance of the noonday sun,

with the many-colored flags over the shops
waving it on,

the crowd looked as if it had closed ranks around itself,

and could never admit another soul.

[--Alfred Kazin, Starting Out in the Thirties (1965), p. 79

About the Author

David Justice studied French at the Sorbonne, mathematics and physics at Harvard and MIT, and math and linguistics at Berkeley. He is the author of The Semantics of Form in Arabic, in the Mirror of European Languages; and of the fictional works I Don’t Do Divorce Cases (which includes stories originally published in Ellery Queen and Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine) and Murphy on the Mount. He taught French at Berkeley, and linguistics at the University of Alberta, then worked at Merriam-Webster as Editor of Etymology (where he edited Webster’s Book of Word Histories) and as Editor of Pronunciation. He subsequently was editor-in-chief at Franklin Electronic Publishers. He is currently employed as a language analyst, and consultant for the University of Maryland. He lives with his bride of forty years, overlooking a peaceful lake.