From: RA@RA.COM   
      
   "selene1022"  wrote in message   
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   > Let's say you're a tenured professor in a major American university   
   > sitting in your office on a crisp November day in 1989.   
   >   
   >   
   > It's all there, all the little mementoes of your life and your rising,   
   >  celebrated academic career cluttering the book covered walls:   
   > Marx-complete de rigueur, Raymond Williams,  Deutcher, E.P., Eric,   
   > back issues of Labour, the sexy red Che poster, a yellowing copy of   
   > your favorite Doonesbury cartoon of that idiot Reagan, the pic of you   
   > with your long curly locks-Paris '68--  smoking a joint with your best   
   > comrade who is now the Chair at Pinnacle University.  The barbarians   
   > have sacked Rome, yes indeed.   
   >   
   > Things have been better than good. Johnson, Nixon and Kissinger have   
   > given you enough materiel to work with until you hit emeritus status.   
   > It hasn't always been so easy though.  Brezhnev was a hard ass in   
   > Poland, but at least he gave the oppressed in the third world hope in   
   > the battle against evil imperialist American capitalism and military   
   > aggression. And let's don't forget Cuba. It has never shined brighter.   
   >   Fidel has increased literacy to 99.9 percent, everyone has   
   > healthcare and sugar production is hanging steady.  No worry about   
   > this new guy Gorbie. A softer, gentler party will quiet all the   
   > doubting Thomases.  Maybe a few bumps in the road, but it works.   
   > Walter Duranty was right--just a few  broken eggs to make a fluffy   
   > omelet.   
   >   
   > You look at your appointment book...2:30 PM,   one of your most   
   > promising grad students wants comment notes on the latest chapter of   
   > his dissertation " Not yet Beyond: The  CPUSA and the Organization of   
   > Transgender Sharecroppers in Yalobusha County Mississippi, 1932-1969..   
   > 3:00 PM. Sandra, the freshman with the perky tits wants help in   
   > getting a few sources for her term paper "Emma Goldman as Sex Worker;   
   > Radical Agency and  Commercialized Sex in early Twentieth-Century New   
   > York. Hmmm...that one might be nice. But first, a quick phone call to   
   > the Ford Foundation to check on that grant for the documentary you're   
   > planning for next fall in Nicaragua. Maybe Sandra will want to tag   
   > along and help with the camera work. You'll feel her out. Damn, life   
   > is sweet.   
   >   
   > And then it happens....Oh shit.   
   >   
   > JV   
      
   LOL. Very good.   
      
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