Abstract

i went to my first meeting of this Society in Seattle in 1984, just forty years ago. Joe Grassi and Morris Grossman from Fairfield University picked up a group of us at the airport and headed to Seattle University. After going around the same block four or five times, Morris, who was riding shotgun, said to his colleague, “Joe, we’re lost.” Being an Italian American male (Baldwin 166–69), Joe emphatically denied this. We nonetheless pulled over, not knowing where we were (some of us knew we did not know our location; one person apparently did not), and Morris and Joe continued their argument about our whereabouts. During the course of what was anything but a Socratic dialogue, two individuals in uniform came up to... Read More.