"Michael J. Smith" wrote:
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> On Thursday 16 November 2006 14:21, Jerry Monaco wrote:
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> > The U of C in my day felt like a monastery and not a prison....
> > If you stayed away from the B-school and the Law School as an
> > undergrad you were pretty safe from the coarse ideologies and then you only
> > had to deal with the Maoists or the Sparts in the quad, for your quota of
> > ideology.
>
> You forgot the Aristotelians in the English department. A wilder-eyed
> gang of fanatics you never saw.
I would agree with this on the first generation anyhow. But I rather grew to like Booth and one or two others of the 2d generation.
Re Uncle Miltie. A poster on marxism who works in a TV station wrote as follows --
****MSNBC story said: "Friedman died of heart failure ..."
Heard in the newsroom today, when the story broke just before 1:00 PM: "¿Quién se habría imaginado que ese hombre tenía corazón?" (Who could have suspected that man had a heart?)****
Carrol