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<DIV>At MR's 50th birthday party, my wife told Paul that he sure had been a
handsome fellow. He looked at her and said in a kind of wistful voice,
utterly without a hint of rudeness, "Any chance I can cash in on that?" An
eye for the women til the end. I remembered this while watching the fine
Canadian film, "The Barbarian Invasions." The main character is a male
professor dying of cancer. He has had many affairs, and his best
memories are of women. He remembers the first woman (an actress I
think) he ever fantasized about. It is the memory he dies
with. </DIV>
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<DIV>Michael Yates</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>From:</B> <A
href="mailto:dhenwood@panix.com">Doug Henwood</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
href="mailto:lbo-talk@lbo-talk.org">lbo-talk</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, March 06, 2004 2:54
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [lbo-talk] Pollin on
Sweezy</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV><<A
href="http://www.counterpunch.org/pollin03062004.html">http://www.counterpunch.org/pollin03062004.html</A>><BR><BR>Remembering
Paul Sweezy<BR><BR>"He was an Amazingly Great Man"<BR><BR>By ROBERT
POLLIN<BR><BR><BR>[...]<BR><BR>There is no doubt that Paul was the leading
Marxian economist in the <BR>United States, and probably the world, during his
lifetime. Certainly <BR>he was the most widely recognized and respected. In my
view, he made <BR>four major intellectual/political
contributions.<BR><BR>[...]<BR><BR>[and evidently John Mage isn't the only
one...]<BR><BR>Which brings up another point. Paul was legendarily handsome in
his <BR>younger years, and apparently the attraction for women remained
<BR>powerful. Some evidence: Paul Samuelson himself wrote about it, in an
<BR>article in Newsweek called, I believe, "When Gods Strode The Earth."
<BR>Samueulson was writing about a debate at Harvard between Schumpeter
<BR>and Sweezy in the midst of the Depression, when Samuelson was a
<BR>student there. In the article, as I recall, Sweezy, not Schumpeter,
<BR>was "the God"-he was so smart, so rich, so handsome, and so Marxist.
<BR>He apparently made mincemeat of the great Schumpeter, debating the
<BR>most burning issue of the time. More evidence: In the mid 1980s I was
<BR>at a small weekend retreat sponsored by MR. I happened to be talking
<BR>to woman professor at the conference, Patricia Fernandez-Kelly (used
<BR>to be at Johns Hopkins, not sure if she's still there). Anyway, I
<BR>noticed that she broke off our conversation and became transfixed for
<BR>almost a full minute. She then turned back to me and said, "Look at
<BR>Sweezy. He is so beautiful." And this is when Paul was in his mid
<BR>seventies.<BR>___________________________________<BR><A
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