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Re: Journalist on Board
Posted by:
Meg Rosenfeld
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Date: August 17, 2003 11:09PM
<HTML>Hi David,
Michael and I sat next to each other in an oral interp class (now, behave yourself) and got into a huge fight over what a John Donne poem meant. the fight continued at a cast party a few days later. After that he always acted as if we were old buddies, which we were, actually, having worked on numerous productions together. "Sweet but dumb" is my summation. Arlo wasn't very communicative, alas, and swiftly defeated me. I would much rather have met a survivor from the war. My dad never saw combat (which of course didn't mean that he wasn't constantly anticipating it) through all his time in the Philipines and New Guinea, and my uncle was rejected by the armed forces for bad eyesight, so he spent the war crisscrossing the Pacific in the Merchant Marine, waiting to get blown up by the Japanese.. this doesn't square with the supposedly bad eyesight, at all, as he went on to become a Captain and never even wore glasses. Eventually a ship of his was holed by a suicide diver/bomber in the Gulf of Tonkin during the Viet Nam war; no-one was hurt but the diver, who surfaced in many pieces, I am told.
Meg</HTML>
Michael and I sat next to each other in an oral interp class (now, behave yourself) and got into a huge fight over what a John Donne poem meant. the fight continued at a cast party a few days later. After that he always acted as if we were old buddies, which we were, actually, having worked on numerous productions together. "Sweet but dumb" is my summation. Arlo wasn't very communicative, alas, and swiftly defeated me. I would much rather have met a survivor from the war. My dad never saw combat (which of course didn't mean that he wasn't constantly anticipating it) through all his time in the Philipines and New Guinea, and my uncle was rejected by the armed forces for bad eyesight, so he spent the war crisscrossing the Pacific in the Merchant Marine, waiting to get blown up by the Japanese.. this doesn't square with the supposedly bad eyesight, at all, as he went on to become a Captain and never even wore glasses. Eventually a ship of his was holed by a suicide diver/bomber in the Gulf of Tonkin during the Viet Nam war; no-one was hurt but the diver, who surfaced in many pieces, I am told.
Meg</HTML>
