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- From: ac999273@umbc.edu (ac999273)
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- Subject: Re: Inaugural Poem
- Date: 26 Jan 1993 09:25:01 -0500
- Organization: University of Maryland, Baltimore County Campus
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- In article <1k15bsINNogh@shelley.u.washington.edu> lmeissne@carson.u.washington.edu (Loren Meissner) writes:
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- >Did anyone notice that the text of the Inaugural poem as carried
- >over the wire services (I posted the wire service version earlier today)
- >omitted the reference to Gays?
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- >Can any of the more literary enlighten us on this?
- >Are the wire services homophobic?
- >Dis Angelou ad-lib the Gay reference at the last minute?
- >Is the Gay reference part of the "original" written text of the
- >poem?
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- Just an opinion.... Didn't Angelou write that poem? If that is
- the case, then everything she read is from the original author, thus is part
- of the original poem... IMHO.
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