Conservative Cornellians

[Mark Kohut]

If anything beyond fame, I think David Corn used them as contrasts
 

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 From: Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org> 
Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2012 11:55 AM
Subject: Conservative Cornellians
  
Referring to conservative Cornellians (Wolfowitz is a 1965 Cornell
graduate in mathematics), Corn showed his familiarity with university
alumni when he said: "I was accepted at Cornell and nearly attended.
Thank you for giving us both Thomas Pynchon and Ann Coulter."

http://www.news.cornell.edu/chronicle/04/9.23.04/Corn-Lowry_debate.html

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0409&msg=93524

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0409&msg=93553

Is this Corn calling Pynchon conservative ... or is the writer simply
assuming he is...

The ur-text isn't clear enough to provide an answer. "Referring to
conservative Cornellians" is a clumsy, ambiguous transition. My guess
is that David Corn intended "Thank you for giving us [alumni as
different as] Thomas Pynchon and Ann Coulter," and Segelken (the
Cornell Chronicle reporter) was too busy tracking the political
ping-pong to catch it

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0701&msg=114628
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