Remembering Gore Vidal

Musical plays of the 60s were quite popular. Lyrics were especially clever, with Rodgers & Hammerstein being just one of the talented teams of the day. South Pacific had a number entitled, You’ve Got To Be Taught To Hate! Sadly, the lyrics still pinch.

Upon checking my own collection of 60s musicals, there it was...South Pacific!

The creative lyrics in the musicals of that era are stunningly accurate in archiving the prejudices of the 60s. Amazingly, nothing has changed...absolutely nothing.

After the L.A. riots, Rodney King, a burly looking black man, set his face directly into the camera and asked simply, “Can’t We Just Get Along”? King’s pain on this earth, for not having the right skin color, is blessedly over. He leaves us with that simple question forever memorialized into our very souls.

We lost novelist Gore Vidal the last day of July, 2012. He was 86.  A gifted novelist, essayist, and playwright, including,  "1876," "Lincoln," "Myra Breckenridge," and "The Best Man." Vidal was known for his acerbic wit and clever sayings.

Some Selected quotes:

A good deed never goes unpunished.

A narcissist is someone better looking than you.

Children alarm their parents, if only because they are forever expecting to encounter themselves.

All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.