[lbo-talk] Age

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Thu Oct 7 15:51:57 PDT 2004


snit snat wrote:
>
> At 05:03 PM 10/7/2004, Dennis Perrin wrote:
> >Quick aging anecdote -- Just picked up my daughter at her high school
> >(she's working on sets for the fall musical), and I had Springsteen's
> >"Rosalita" playing in the car, windows down. She's runs up to the car door
> >and says, "Dad! Please turn that down! It's embarrassing!"

HAH! In the spring of 1957 I assigned Auden's "Im Memory of W. B. Yeats" to a freshman class, and while browsing through the poem to see what background I should give realized My god-- none of them will remember the headlines when Germany went into Poland.

Carrol



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