From the outgoing mailbag -- Veritas
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libertangoAn email I just sent to Jim Fallows:
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Jim:
Just read "A Primer on Bigotry." I agree on just about all points, as usual. Here's a story, though, that you may (or may not) appreciate, inspired by your inclusion of the "Veritas" graphic.
My dad (and my mom, for that matter), went to Harvard. He received his BA in 1965. (Also his MA from Suffolk that same year, but that's another story.)
Anyway, dad had a lot of friends, because he was the kind of guy of whom we'd say today who networks well. One of them was a very religious Christian fellow from Africa -- I want to say an Anglican from Kenya, but that may be my own embellishment.
Said friend believed that what he saw as the relentless secularism of Harvard of the time was an out-and-out assault. It worried him no end, because he could see the appeal, but believed it led students astray.
One day, he came up to my father and said, "John, I have it figured out. Harvard's main problem, that is. They put it out for all to see, right on the shield: Fractured truth!"
Hoping this finds you well,
-- Hal
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Jim:
Just read "A Primer on Bigotry." I agree on just about all points, as usual. Here's a story, though, that you may (or may not) appreciate, inspired by your inclusion of the "Veritas" graphic.
My dad (and my mom, for that matter), went to Harvard. He received his BA in 1965. (Also his MA from Suffolk that same year, but that's another story.)
Anyway, dad had a lot of friends, because he was the kind of guy of whom we'd say today who networks well. One of them was a very religious Christian fellow from Africa -- I want to say an Anglican from Kenya, but that may be my own embellishment.
Said friend believed that what he saw as the relentless secularism of Harvard of the time was an out-and-out assault. It worried him no end, because he could see the appeal, but believed it led students astray.
One day, he came up to my father and said, "John, I have it figured out. Harvard's main problem, that is. They put it out for all to see, right on the shield: Fractured truth!"
Hoping this finds you well,
-- Hal
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Date: 2010-09-29 04:48 am (UTC)Cheers, You know who.