From dgw1@nyu.edu Sun Jan 28 09:39:34 2001 Received: from mxu1.u.washington.edu (mxu1.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.05/8.9.3+UW00.12) with ESMTP id JAA113804 for ; Sun, 28 Jan 2001 09:39:33 -0800 Received: from e1g1.home.nyu.edu (E1G0.HOME.NYU.EDU [128.122.108.150]) by mxu1.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id JAA08444 for ; Sun, 28 Jan 2001 09:39:33 -0800 Received: from homemail.nyu.edu (d2 [192.168.78.12]) by e1g1.home.nyu.edu (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id f0SHdWJ20829 for ; Sun, 28 Jan 2001 12:39:32 -0500 (EST) From: Diana G Wright To: classics@u.washington.edu Message-ID: <16bb31ba51.1ba5116bb3@homemail.nyu.edu> Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 12:39:32 -0500 X-Mailer: Netscape Webmail MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Language: en Subject: Re: RE: Years - and It's Saturday Night Live in New York !` X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher Robbins" Date: Sunday, January 28, 2001 7:35 am Subject: RE: Years - and It's Saturday Night Live in New York !` > And a gentelman Izzy Stone indeed was, for I knew him > personally. The Weekly and then Bi-Weekly were published door-to- > door from > his home in my hometown. I used to wonder how he ever found > ANYTHING in the > 44th St. house (that's DC not NYC). Open books, loose papers, > journals,government documents, etc., all stacked nearly floor to > ceiling everywhere > and looking like a tornado had just ripped through the college > library. But > he did. The memory of Izzy gives me needed relief from my own chronic > condition of LDS (literacy disorder syndrome). Except that I > can't find > anything. :-) > .I.F. Stone, as was usual, saw a larger picture. > > But surely, David, it is not just the "Princeton Affair" which > gives warrant > by the side door to Izzy's honorary classicist robes. A person > who learned > Attic Greek de novo in his 70's and then did the great bulk of his > researchin the original language. That, tto my view, is a item > for note. > I. F. Stone was a dear friend, but I admired him too much to call him anything but "Mr. Stone." The invention of the computer was a great mercy for him, with his abominable eyesight, as he was able to have a set-up with the font enlarged to the point where he could read Greek one word at a time. Those who criticize his Greek might consider just how difficult it could be to manage a language that way. His memorial service will always remain in my memory, not because I was there, as I was fairly sick, but because of the parking. It was held at the Quaker Meeting House across the street from me, where there is a 2-hour limit on parking, enforced by the Eumenides. The service ran from 11 to 1. At 5 minutes before 1, four parking harpies were out there ticketing every car in sight. DW > .