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From: jod@ccat.sas.upenn.edu (James J. O'Donnell)
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>From this week's (4/23-30/01) New Yorker, pp. 143-4:

	I am appalled, even horrified, that you have adopted Classics as a
	Major.  As a matter of fact, I almost puked on the way home
	today.  . . .  I suppose everybody has to be a snob of some sort,
	and I suppose you will feel that you are distinguishing yourself
	from the herd by becoming a Classical snob.  I can see you
	drifting into a bar, belting down a few, turning around to a guy
	on the stool next to you -- a contemporary billboard baron from
	Podunk, Iowa -- and saying, 'Well, what do you think about old
	Leonidas?' . . . I think you are rapidly becoming a jackass, and
	the sooner you get out of that filthy atmosphere, the better it
	will suit me.

Ed Turner to his son Ted, c. 1958, when the latter was a student at Brown
Univ.  I tried that thing in the bar one time and the billboard guy popped
me one.

Jim O'Donnell
Classics, U. of Penn
jod@ccat.sas.upenn.edu

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