spootnik

[Melissa Smith]

JOKE.

 I tell my students that there is a cause-and-effect link between my 
life and recent Russian Soviet history - Stalin died the year after I 
was born, my earliest memories was seeing the McCarthy hearings on my 
cousins' television,  and I started first grade the year Sputnik was 
launched. Irony was what kept me in the profession.

Best wishes, Melissa Smith


Michele A. Berdy wrote:


>I'm a little slow tonight -- is this a joke or do you really believe 
this?
>
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Melissa Smith" <mtsmith02 at YSU.EDU>
>To: <SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu>
>Sent: Friday, October 09, 2009 1:23 AM
>Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] spootnik
>
>
>> It was anti-Soviet propaganda - diminishing the accomplishment by 
>> making it sound like it went "putt-putt."
>> 
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Melissa T. Smith, Professor
Department of Foreign Languages and 
Literatures  
Youngstown State University
Youngstown, OH 44555
Tel: (330)941-3462

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