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I have a different view of MM --
I went to Chartres in November 1988 as part of a honeymoon. He was already
dying & we knew it, but he wanted to show me the Chartres he had known just
after WW2 when he went up & walked on the snow-covered roof. It was an
unbelievably cold day & we were almost alone in the cathedral, so that we
moved the chairs off the maze & walked it, & moved the chairs back. We
spent a very long time wth binoculars & the windows. MM appeared at some
point & started talking to us about the cathedral. We are hopelessly polite
in such situations & desperately didn;t want to be talked to & it took quite
a long time to get ourselves free.
My husband's uncle was head of a bomb squad at the end of WW2. He was
smuggled into the town of Chartres by the re/sistance when the Germans were
leaving, & into the cathedral which was windowless. His letter -- a copy of
which we gave for the archives there -- described his joy at being there
finally, alone, hearing the bombs go off as the Germans blew up a nearby
bridge, & then of dismantling the bombs which the Germans had left in that
glorious cathedral which were set to go off.
DW
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From: "Christopher Crockett" <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: Re: [M-R] Malcolm Miller
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From: Laura Jacobus <[log in to unmask]>
> Hear, hear for Malcolm Miller! ...If anyone goes and finds he's still
doing
the tours, tell him of his fans.
he's well aware of them, believe me.
though he got to recognize me in sucessive summers in the '60s when i spent
a
lot of time hanging out around the cathedral and, sometimes, taking his
tour,
i got to know him a bit better when i lived in Chartres during several
winters
in the '80s, when he told me that he figured that he had given tours and
talks
to about a million people.
i expressed some surprise and scepticism but he reeled off his calculations,
not just of his two tours per day in Chartres since the early '60s, but the
extensive speaking tours he has made to the U.S., Australia and other
provinces. (he didn't count his TeeVee appearances.)
in content, his tours are full of very questionable, certainly old-fashioned
ideas, but that's not at all the point.
he is a quite marvelous pedagogue (in the true sense, without the negative
connotation).
i'd compare him to someone like Will Durant --again, not in a negative way--
who reached *millions* of people through his books on history and philosophy
in ways and with a sucess that us Akademical Types cannot hope to equal.
c
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Ghouls and tools of the Christian right :
http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2005/03/21/schiavo_courts/story.jpg
"[Michael Schiavo] said U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, who is leading
a
charge to extend Terri Schiavo's life, is a 'little slithering snake'
pandering for
votes."
http://www.sptimes.com/2005/03/20/news_pf/Tampabay/Schiavo___Come_down__.sht
ml
Schiavo: 'Come down, President Bush'
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