Friday, July 19, 2019

Back to Why John ("PAR-thin-OH-pee") Bryant has always been so Hostile to Me

It goes back--I can probably find the day if I look--in the late 1980s or so when John Bryant asked me to write a letter of recommendation for him. He was applying for money from some Pennsylvania fund. I read the proposal and did not think it merited my support, so I told him I could not in good conscience recommend it. He sputtered and finally said that I did not know how to get along in the world. In this academic world, I rubbed his back and he rubbed my back.
Well, I was not that kind of smart get-along-by-going-along guy.

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