Roger Day wrote:
> http://books.guardian.co.uk/poetry/features/0,,2215928,00.html
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The best teachers I've known are politically incorrect and unafraid to
upset you. I had one English teacher who would bring the Daily Worker
to class. And in a class made up mostly of Jewish kids back in 1961,
Mrs. Jeannette Zansky tried to define for us the difference between
Goodness and Greatness by pointing at two examples of the latter: Hitler
and Stalin. The lesson was unforgettable. Today, Mrs. Z would probably
lose her tenure and be thrown beneath the wheels of a train. Scannell
sounds of the same ilk: dangerous and joyful.
ken
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Kenneth Wolman
www.kenwolman.net
kenwolman.wordpress.com
"I agree with the Chekhov character who, when in a crisis, he is reminded that 'this, too, shall pass,' responds 'Nothing passes.'"--Philip Roth
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