They are missed, these two men who didn’t try to make us love each other, but at the very least,made us tolerant of each other during their professional lives. Perhaps unknowingly, their gentlehumor fostered tolerance. What they said was helpful--seldom painfulhelping us to relax a bit, evenwhen upended by life’s obstacles cropping up along the way.
Their body language, smiles and observations were worthy of taking to the bank, or at least taking note of. (I’m writing of two “late greats”--Will Rogers and Johnny Carson. They could havemade something clever out of my sentence-ending preposition, but they’d go about it so gently, Iwouldn’t have felt no shame. Fact is, I’d have been honored if either even glanced at my column!)
They could have taken today’s turbulent world culture head on, making us smile in spite of itall.
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