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From: "Ken Wolman" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 11:53 AM
Subject: Re: More epigrams, new ones
> ON A RADICAL PROFESSOR
>
> Such championing of the oppressed
> seems odd from someone so well dressed.
At Binghamton there was a professor of economics, a devout and
genuflecting Marxist, who nevertheless drove around in a Cadillac.
It may have been used. Slightly.
ken
Hey. I know what Czeslaw Milosz did with part of his Nobel Prize money.
One day late in 1980 or early in 1981 I was walking up University Avenue in
Berkeley and turning south on Shattuck. Around the corner came the poet -
there was no mistaking those eyebrows, those jowls, that sardonic wisdom -
at the wheel of a brand-new, sticker still on it, bright GREEN Cadillac.
Our eyes met. He saw my expression. I thought I saw the slightest
suggestion of a smile. I told my mother. "Typical Polack," she said.
(Don't get politically correct at me, anyone. Polish kids used to chase and
torment her on the West Side of Chicago in 1920.)
If I won I'd make a contribution to Amnesty International, then buy a goddam
Bentley.
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