My Godfather/step-father went to Brown for four days and left- for baseball the next fifty years. I also should have left after four days at a later date for different reasons.My parents were so courageous they raised me with caution- I suppose they tried to protect me.//Do you know Emily Dickinson rarely left her home for 21 years while she wrote her poems after 1865?
On Apr 22, 7:05�pm, dick thompson <[email protected]> wrote: > It does, doesn't it. �I think, like a lot of liberals who think they > know what religious and conservative people are like, he found he was > wrong on many levels. �I think that made him take another look at the > rest of his beliefs. �Maybe some changed and some didn't but at least > with this story he showed that realized that he had changed. �Bet his > buddies at Brown were surprised. > > Reminds me when I went to college. �I went to a pretty good Midwestern > university (rated in the top 50 in the country), small liberal arts > school. �About half the people I went to school with were graduates of > the eastern prep schools and had never been west of Philadelphia except > to fly to California. �They really had no idea what the rest of the > country was like and it was a real culture shock to them. �I had to > laugh at my freshman roommate. �We never got along because he would not > accept that the values of the Midwest counted and I would not give them > up. �By his senior year he ended up marrying a girl from a small > Midwestern town and settled in suburban Illinois very happily and then > later managed a newspaper in small town Ohio. �He also became very > religious which he certainly was not when he started college. �This > Brown University student may have found some of the same thing going on > in his life. > > > > Keith In Tampa wrote: > > I'd like to read the book, it sounds as if the writer was changed more > > so from his experiences as compared to any kind of expose he had > > initially planned to write. > > > On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 7:43 PM, dick thompson > > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > � �http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/ivy_leaguer_liberty_u/2009/04/22/2... > > � � > > <http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/ivy_leaguer_liberty_u/2009/04/22/2...>- > > Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
