Sounds as though Professor Marion Shaw knew how to keep you in your place,
Robin.
joanna
> On the anniversary of 68 -- exactly thirty years on -- for some weird
> reason
> I decided to buttonhole everyone I knew (at least the ones who were old
> enough to have been alive at the time) and scream, "Where were you in 68?"
>
> Easily the most disconcerting answer I got was from the Real Lady,
> Professor
> Marion Shaw, my then boss.
>
> "In the morning I was teaching, in the afternoon I was running student
> strikes, and in the evening I was helping-out at a refuge for battered
> wives."
>
> Made my own experience of 68 pale into triviality in comparison.
>
>
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