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To: MarkMcM
You have to read this:
Its pathetic.

http://www.kultursmog.com/Life-Page01.htm

3 posted on 10/19/2003 4:09:22 PM PDT by dinok
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To: dinok
The article is written by John Dos Passos. He first went to Europe in 1917 as a vlounteer ambulance driver after leaving Harvard. Here are some quotes from letters Don Passos wrote from France during WW I.--

"And what are we fit for when they turn us out of Harvard? We're too intelligent to be successful business men and we haven't the sand or the energy to be anything else. Until Widener is blown up and A. Lawrence Lowell assassinated and the Business School destroyed and its site sowed with salt -- no good will come out of Cambridge."

"I've decided my only hope is in revolution -- in wholesale assassination of all statesmen, capitalists, war-mongers, jingoists, inventors, scientists -- in the destruction of all the machinery of the industrial world, equally barren in destruction and construction.

"Politically, I've given up hope entirely -- the capitalists have the world so in their clutches -- I....

He is no different than the socialists writing news articles about Iraq today, and he is no more reliable to give a true picture.

7 posted on 10/19/2003 5:29:26 PM PDT by San Jacinto
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