Tributes to Michael Harrington
Scheuer, Jeffrey
I didn't know Michael Harrington personally, but in the public man I felt I had a special and elegant friend. First and last, I admired the lucid power and moral clarity of his prose, a legacy...
...Everywhere in Harrington's corpus there is decency, reason, and hope...
...That vision was Michael Harrington's gift to democratic socialism and to American discourse...
...It expressed a searching but confident and courageous vision, always focused on humane values and human problems...
...First and last, I admired the lucid power and moral clarity of his prose, a legacy that will endure beyond memory...
...he made it easier to be both...
...q Photo by Dan Miller WINTER • 1990 • 109...
...urgent, hortatory, always appealing to the best, it was the voice of one of America's most compelling orators...
...To be a socialist, he once said, is to be an optimist...
...But for inspiration, I will remember his public voice: thin but resonant, with a distinctive charged cadence and a faint Missouri twang...
Vol. 37 • January 1990 • No. 1
