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To: JohnM who wrote (33895)	7/8/2002 9:26:16 AM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (2) of 281500

As for the argument about the ME's taste for Western music, he meant classical and his evidence was quite strong Lewis point was weak, agreed, but to emphasize it as strongly as he did was to wander away in irrelevancies. The ad hominen attacks were completely unnecessary and unprofessional. Said dislikes Lewis intensely, it is obvious. Given the poisonous invective, one wonders if professional jealousy is the backdrop for the scathing review. Lewis is getting the lion's share of the media attention while Said is relatively unknown. It surely must rankle Said, and his prose may reflect more jealousy than analysis. In my view, Said not once dealt directly with any of the central points of Lewis' book. I agree that Lewis uses generalities a bit too loosely. Isn't that what hugely experienced octogenarian pooh-bahs with chairs at Princeton are supposed to do? Despite the problems, I think that Lewis is not far off the mark, a mark that Said never touched in his almost hysterical review.

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