Churchill

Stephen E Philion philion at hawaii.edu
Sat Oct 20 15:17:38 PDT 2001


Here, alas, is the key criticism I made of Churchill that Rob reiterates in his response to Kelly. I am glad that on this issue, which is what I was *originally addressing myself to*, Rob, Kelly, and I are in agreement.

Steve

Rob wrote:
> >Churchill's calim that floor traders..deserve to be incinerated (Who
among us is in an occupation neatly divorced
> >from the system, eh? And who among us knew everything when they selected
> >their career, eh? And who got exactly the career they anticipated, eh?)
> >and secondly, I seem to remember that famous picture of that poor lad going
> >down head-first, was one of a cook. People who work in buildings where
> >high status workers work, work alongside armies of not particularly
> >privileged service personel - cooks, waiters, secretaries, cleaners,
> >clerks, couriers, gophers etc - and then there's the little matter of
> >firemen and (boo now, thou purists) constables. It ain't the suits who
> >enter deathtraps to save people ...



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