[lbo-talk] infrastructure

[Carrol Cox]

On 7/21/2011 11:42 AM, Doug Henwood wrote:
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> On Jul 21, 2011, at 11:16 AM, Miles Jackson wrote:
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>> A very serious sociological topic.  The use of "phony" as a pejorative term works because people in our society are expected to have an authentic, unique essence "beneath" their social roles ("the real me").
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> The 60th anniversary of the publication of Catcher in the Rye was last Saturday, I believe. Maybe we're all just celebrating.
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> Doug

I didn't know that. I did think of the book the other day but couldn't 
quote or even paraphrase it well enough to make use of it.   One of the 
best students I ever had in freshman comp, a Janet Coleman, wrote a 
superb impromptu on Salinger's "Fore Esme, with love & ???" That was in 
second-semester comp at Michigan. Students who got an A or an "Exempt B" 
in the first semester were exempted from the second semester; hence such 
superb writing on an impromptu theme was an actual shock. Apparently she 
had somehow ticked off her first-semester instructor.

Carrol