From: wilforddumont@gmail.net   
      
   On Sat, 30 Jul 2011 15:54:41 -0400, Chan Welbourne wrote:   
      
   >>>>>>> You will have to talk to Victor Dix about Allen Bloom at UC, I hear he   
   >>>>>>> was   
   >>>>>>> a terror. :o)   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> Dr. Bloom was a superior educator, a Great Text advocate. Funny enough,   
   >>>>>> it   
   >>>>>> was one of his ideas which drew me to Harry Potter and that was the idea   
   >>>>>> of   
   >>>>>> the shared text. As far as I can see, Harry Potter is the shared text   
   >>>>>> universally.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Universally and unilaterally regardless of educational background.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> No way. What about English majors?   
   >>>   
   >>> I see "unilaterally" challenges you.   
   >   
   >> Story goes that Dr. Bloom almost always asked his English literature majors   
   >> what was their shared text. They rarely had one in the post modern era.   
   >   
   > It used to be the Bible but I don't know of but a few who have read it   
   > end to end these days.   
      
   Pre-1960 there were a couple of others that were part of the social   
   noir.   
      
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