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To: LindyBill who wrote (7820)9/13/2003 1:49:38 AM
From: D. Long  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 793826
 
Great article. Now I want to read his book...

Really hits on something quite tragic, too. There will be no more MacArthurs. We gained and lost in our egalitarianism.

Derek



To: LindyBill who wrote (7820)9/13/2003 5:33:41 PM
From: Rascal  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 793826
 
Jimmy Breslin wrote a column about this 2 weeks ago....

Dean is about as WASP as you can get. He is out of East Hampton, the part of it where money comes out of the safe with a light coating of dust. His father was the head of Dean Witter stocks on Wall Street. He has membership in the Maidstone Club. Some Jewish people point out that they could never get in the Maidstone Club. I couldn't get in the joint, either. Do they write about that in these glorious stories about the Hamptons?

Dean went to The Browning School in Manhattan then to St. George's School in Rhode Island, which had a sloop for students desirous of a sail. After that, he went to Yale. Dean then went to Albert Einstein medical school in the Bronx and became a doctor.

Dean was first entering Yale when George Bush was in his senior year. Bush's grandfather was a senator from Connecticut and partner in Brown Brothers stock brokers. Bush was out of Phillips Exeter Academy before Yale.

Both families made money out of money. The horror of manual labor never came close.

If Dean and Bush run against each other, they will use up every white voter in the country.

Message 19251364

Plagerism. That's how the conservatives get their ideas!

Rascal @BrooksNeedsHisOwnIdeas.com



To: LindyBill who wrote (7820)9/13/2003 7:42:04 PM
From: JohnM  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 793826
 
We certainly have different reactions. My take was that Brooks lacked a backlog of columns when he started and so had to scramble to get this one up and running. It's a point that's been out there for some time; it means very little; and it's written as a ho hum piece.

I expect Brooks to get better; his first piece was much better than this.