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"Salty." (Scott McLemee)
"Unvarnished." (Phi Beta Cons)
"Splendidly splenetic." (Culture Industry)
"Except for University Diaries, most academic blogs are tedious."
(Rate Your Students)
"I think of Soltan as the Maureen Dowd of the blogosphere,
except that Maureen Dowd is kind of a wrecking ball of a writer,
and Soltan isn't. For the life of me, I can't figure out her
politics, but she's pretty fabulous, so who gives a damn?"
(Tenured Radical)

Monday, August 20, 2007

Phi Beta Cons...

...the National Review website about universities, takes note of UD today, describing her blogging as having "a nice, unvarnished** quality," and then quoting her IHE branch campus on the Dynes resignation/firing at the University of California.


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**un·var·nished /ʌnˈvɑrnɪʃt/

Pronunciation [uhn-vahr-nisht]

–adjective

1. plain; clear; straightforward; without vagueness or subterfuge; frank: the unvarnished truth.

2. unfinished, as floors or furniture; not coated with or as if with varnish.


[Origin: 1595–1605; un-1 + varnish + -ed3, -ed2]


—Synonyms 1. bare, naked, candid, direct.

adj.

Not coated with varnish: unvarnished floors.

Stated or otherwise presented without any effort to soften or disguise; plain: the unvarnished truth.

unvarnished

1604, of statements, "not embellished," from un- (1) "not" + pp. of varnish (v.).

Lit. sense of "not covered in varnish" is recorded from 1758.

adjective

1. not having a coating of stain or varnish [syn: unstained]
2. free from any effort to soften to disguise; "the plain and unvarnished truth"; "the unvarnished candor of old people and children" [syn: plain]
Posted at: 8/20/2007 04:48:00 PM