[lit-ideas] Re: BOBBY DISSES HILLARY, JOINS POPPER
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 21:07:14 EDT
Donald McEvoy says Harvard professor emeritus Hilary Putnam is 'girly', and
consequently spells his name 'Hillary'. R. Paul adds fuel and forwards
>for scholarly purposes
from
_http://www.snopes.com/politics/clintons/hillary.asp_
(http://www.snopes.com/politics/clintons/hillary.asp)
"During a stop in Nepal ... Hillary Clinton engaged in a brief ... meeting
with Sir Edmund Hillary (who, along with Tenzing Norgay,
became the first person to reach the summit of Mt. Everest) and told
reporters she had been named after the famed mountain
climber."
Better than 'Norgay Rodham', I suppose.
"Hillary Clinton didn't technically claim the story of how she came by her
first name was literally true (at least in any of the accounts we've found);
she
said her mother told her it was true -- a minor but important distinction
given
how often parents make up harmless little fibs to amuse their children or
misremember past events."
I'm confused. Isn't truth supposed to be 'transitive'?
"(Her husband, former president Bill Clinton, did repeat the claim in his
2004 autobiography.)"
You see. It's transitive.
The question remains: after whom was Hilary Putnam christened?
Cheers,
JL
----
"Problem is Edmund Hillary did not perform the feat that made him a
household name
until 1953 (by which time Hillary Rodham
was already 6)"
"Seeing Edmund Hillary's name in print ["I'm going to climb Mt. Everest"]
inspired her mother to name her 'Hillary'
(even though she came across it being used a surname rather than a first
name)."
"the two-l
spelling, while less common, was one she was far more likely to have
encountered
reading about persons (both male and female) much more prominent than Edmund
Hillary such as film actress Hillary Brooke and Cornell football and
basketball star Hillary Chollet."
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