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Smiling Through
Posted on Jul. 20, 2008 at 3:36 AM - Post Comment
N.Y. N.Y. I submit that, rather, it is contrast that is life’s piquant condiment. Last week, I attended two events in my home state of Nebraska that supplied both variety and contrast on successive days. On the one hand, I addressed a group of noble citizens whose job is aiding and counseling poor devils suffering from depression. “Cavett Returns Home to Discuss ‘The Worst Agony Devised For Man’ ” read the next day’s headline in the Lincoln paper. Despite the subject matter, I got quite a lot of laughs. My credentials? Having been there myself. The year before I had talked to a similar group of care-givers in Omaha in front of an audience that included what you’d think would be an entertainer’s nightmare: a hundred or more people in the throes of the disease. Paranoid schizophrenic,” someone stage-whispered to me. There was general tension in the room as the man continued to approach. When he stopped two feet in front of me, and stared at me, I heard ...
Originally from: http://cavett.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/27/smiling-through/
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