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I heartally agree with the last paragraph - the only reason I keep reading what Matt puts out. Marvin I missed #5: 5.? Who is the most well known person you have ever conversed with - not neccessariy when the person was famous? Seamus Heaney was a Harvard professor in 1985, ten years before he won the Nobel Prize for literature.? One of the three guys I shared a house with just off-campus is Irish, and he was tied into the native Irish community in Boston. ?Heaney came by a couple of times, and got into a tussle with another Irish professor in our living room during our St. Patrick¡¯s Day party, where he and the other professor were supplying the music on some strange stringed instruments. ?Another (female) Irish professor broke up the melee by gently singing to them. ? Also at that party was Louise Richardson, a grad student my housemate was dating.? My girlfriend and I were going to double-date with my housemate and Louise at a play in Boston about a psychotic nun, but my housemate stood her up, and the three of us went to the play without him.? Louise was deeply offended by he play and my housemate. She went on and got her MA and PhD at Harvard, and hung around long enough to become a professor, and later the Dean of Radcliffe, leaving in 2010 to become the Vice-Chancellor at St. Andrews, and is now the Vice-Chancellor at Oxford.? She¡¯s been in the news lately over her conservative views, like her statement that students should exchange with those with views they might find objectionable, since ¡®higher education is not meant to be a comfortable experience.¡¯ Ed On Friday, August 13, 2021, mrvnchpmn <chapman@...> wrote:
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