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To: Neocon who wrote (1304)	11/9/1999 6:40:00 PM
From: jbe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3246

Neocon, it is precisely BECAUSE I am not a Hemingway fan, that I insist on recognizing his influence, as an objective fact. Fair is fair, after all. Just because I do not particularly like someone is no reason to deny that he was influential -- or even that the influence, on the whole, was to the good. I accept your determination to exclude all the obvious "meanies" from your list -- the Hitlers, Stalins, et al. But folks like Keynes and Hemingway do not fall into the "meanies" category. To say that you are excluding them because, in your opinion, they did not exert a "positive" influence over-all indicates, to me, that you are allowing a strong ideological bias to interfere with your objectivity. Joan