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Re: Wooden, Paterno, and Lombardi (Managing skills)
Subject:Re: Wooden, Paterno, and Lombardi (Managing skills) From:Wayne Douglass <wayned -at- VERITY -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 23 Jun 1997 10:56:10 -0700
At 10:46 AM 6/23/97 EDT, Larry Kunz wrote:
>Are you saying there's a correlation between skill in using language
>and ability to lead? That's certainly bound to be popular in this
>forum; and, IMO, it has the added benefit of being true.
>
I'm glad you think so and I can't disagree.
My citing Wooden, Paterno, and Lombardi as role models is really a
rhetorical ploy to answer the accusation that a degree in English is
"useless." In our bread and circuses society, what could be better than to
point to athletic coaches with a background in language to validate my
position? Logically it means nothing, but in an age when sophistry is all...
I do the same thing when fanatical vegetarians ascribe everything wonderful
to giving up meat - I point out that Hitler was a vegetarian.
--Wayne
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