From: ichbiah@twsolutions.com (Jean D. Ichbiah)
Subject: Re: DEWAR (Spelled correctly!), Chill out
Date: 1998/02/03
Date: 1998-02-03T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <34d891ea.15839537@news.tiac.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dewar.885510066@merv
Friends and Colleagues,
It is a moral duty to come to the rescue of someone
as defenseless as Robert:
> People often find it interesting to read my father's autobiography (it
> is in the ACS autobiography series). You will recognize some things
> there, particularly the notion that strenuous argument (in which people
> should not get emotionally involved please) is a good path to understanding
> issues. I always find it interesting that, at least in the Oxford tradition
> of English in which I was brought up, argument is a positive term, not
> at all related to the word quarrel, whereas in the US, it seems a very
> negative word, not far from quarrel :-)
I cannot remember a single strenuous argument with Robert in
which he did not end up agreeing with me!
Jean Ichbiah
Textware Solutions
ichbiah@twsolutions.com
http://www.twsolutions.com
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1998-01-22 0:00 ` DEWAR (Spelled correctly!), Chill out Robert Dewar
1998-01-23 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1998-01-23 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1998-02-03 0:00 ` Jean D. Ichbiah [this message]
1998-02-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-05 0:00 ` Jean D. Ichbiah
1998-02-04 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1998-01-25 0:00 Sam Harbaugh, Palm Bay, Florida
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