From: Gerald A. Levy (Gerald_A_Levy@MSN.COM)
Date: Mon Mar 22 2004 - 20:01:22 EST
----- Original Message ----- From: "Bertell Ollman " <obertell@netscape.net> To: ""Gerald A. Levy"" <Gerald_A_Levy@msn.com> Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 6:57 PM Subject: RE: Remembering James F. Becker Dear Jerry, Thanks so much for remembering Jim - and in such a generous spirit - and for jogging my memory on the subject. Jim and I shared a university for about 30 years, and tho we were never very close personally we were the best of political comrades. There were few political meetings, esp. those relating to our life at NYU, where one of us was present and the other not. Jim argued well and got angry at all the right moments, or so I thought. In any case, it generally worked. A keen intelligence and blood curdling disgust at all that deserves just that are a hard combination to beat. More than one radical student owes his/her narrow escape from the jaws of the Administration to Jim's stirling peformance in defense. And always there was the courage, the willingness to take risks with his own career, whenever the occasion required it, as it often did. In all this, and in his teaching - as you point out - Jim Becker was a model radical professor. It's only right that the world should know what a terrible loss it suffered when Jim died. Yours-in-Common-Struggle, Bertell Ollman Dept. of Politics NYU
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