Tributes to Michael Harrington
Mort, Jo-Ann
The last time I saw Mike, we had lunch at a coffee shop in Greenwich Village. He had a chocolate milkshake, which had been his staple food since the cancer recurred. We discussed...
...A circle of comrades I have come to know through Mike, the DSA generation, is a generation solely by virtue of our allowing Michael to transform our lives...
...Thinking changing and changing living," Auden wrote...
...As he believed in others scattered around this country...
...But the subject never came up...
...Lives he changed forever...
...He was dead two and a half months later...
...we, who are now beholden to a possibly utopian, but absorbing, imperious notion of building a democratic socialist movement in this country — aa notion that Michael handed us as his legacy...
...He told me he had a long version and a short version in mind, depending on how much time he had left...
...Michael believed in me more than I believe in myself...
...I wanted to talk to him about practical details, 108 • DISSENT Remembering Mike too—what we in DSA should do without him, assure him that somehow the organization would survive...
...WINTER • 1990 • 109...
...We discussed nineteenthcentury literature and E. M. Forster, the possibilities for lasting romantic love in the world, and Mike's ideas for a new book he planned to write...
Vol. 37 • January 1990 • No. 1
