forbearer

[Jonathan Lighter]

Nah. "Jay Baird" is just thoughtless. "Jay Byrd" would be heartless.

40,000 raw Googlits for "Jay Byrd."

JL

On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 7:08 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> "Jay Baird"? Some parents are heartless.
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> -Wilson
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> On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Jonathan Lighter
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> > 2008 Jay W. Baird _Hitler's War Poets_ (Cambridge: C.U.P.) 1: When naive
> > youth, like their mythical Greek forbearer Icarus, ...launched their own
> > flight to death.
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> > Dr. Baird is Professor of History Emeritus at Miami University.
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