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Even without the "offensive" content, I'm surprised that at least three intelligent people here would consider this even partially a "good poem."

Is that true? I can't stand the stuff, but why would anybody buy anything bigger than a tall if that's the case?

Probably because he's the head of Starbucks!

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It may not prove he's an anti-semite---just a muddled thinker and a nut case.

So, you're a gun runner?

Yes, but who is Client 9 on this board?

Were you there at the same time as Howard Schultz? Based on your birth date you probably overlapped. And did you know Harold Bakst?

You could preview it for free by streaming.

I always loved his Haydn concerto. I'll give him a slight edge over Wynton

Damn, I'll be away from Baku that week.

Interesting. He's on my list of the all-time worst singers!

I was on JCS from '97-99. Ron & Lon were indeed voices of sanity. Too bad they split up (unless Ron posts here under a handle I'm unaware of). I never did rec.music.bluenote. It's apparently alive, though on life support: http://groups.google.com/groups/search?q=rec.music.bluenote&scoring=d

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We're all right: Campbell read the poem on Lester's program... http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1969/2/27/wbais-problems-pwbai-fm-new-york-citys/

I didn't know Shirley Horn before 1991, when I saw her at this star-studded event: http://www.nytimes.com/1991/06/27/arts/jazz-festival-some-friends-pay-tribute-to-sarah-vaughan.html She was the highlight, and blew me away. I saw her many times after that.

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Sorry, I thought I remembered your extremist anti-choice stance of some years ago as coming from an R.C. perspective (the same era as your support for the Iraq war).

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FWIW, just a general statement (I haven't read the book), but "well written" and "mediocre writer" are not mutually exclusive concepts. Are the "literary classes" a monolithic cabal?

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