source file: mills2.txt Date: Tue, 3 Sep 1996 10:41:19 -0700 Subject: Re: From McLaren From: alves@osiris.ac.hmc.edu (Bill Alves) While I still don't fully comprehend how 30-year-old (and justified) attacks on the esoterica of Babbitt et al. justifies Brian's judgment of "all but a handful" of tuning list subscribers as musically untalented number pushers, I would like to compare the following statement by Brian: >The third category >is PhD. The individual suffers severe cognitive >deficit, cannot learn musical tasks, and is >incapable of recognizing behaviour which is >unproductive and meaningless. with another post by Brian last year: >To the extent that any of >my statements about academia or people with PhDs has >hindered the discussion on this forum, or poisoned it >with unnecessary bad feeling, I certainly apologize.... >Suffice it to say that >this tuning forum represents an extraordinary confluence >of exceptionally talented academics. Brian, how are we to reconcile statements such as these? You may be surprised that subscribers object to the notion that they're not interested in music. Permit us the surprise that you admit admiration for some academics while continuing to attack all PhDs and academia in general. Bill ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^ Bill Alves email: alves@hmc.edu ^ ^ Harvey Mudd College URL: http://www2.hmc.edu/~alves/ ^ ^ 301 E. Twelfth St. (909)607-4170 (office) ^ ^ Claremont CA 91711 USA (909)621-8360 (fax) ^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Tue, 3 Sep 1996 20:23 +0200 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA17118; Tue, 3 Sep 1996 20:24:29 +0200 Received: from eartha.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA17143 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id LAA00431; Tue, 3 Sep 1996 11:24:27 -0700 Date: Tue, 3 Sep 1996 11:24:27 -0700 Message-Id: <30960903182003/0005695065PK1EM@MCIMAIL.COM> Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu