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...frail thoughts dally with false surmise. Ay me! Whilst thee the shores and sounding seas Wash far away... --John Milton, Lycidas...
Better, I think, to try to deal with the painful subject of the sudden end of a young, good, prominent life, and to attempt to know why it affects us so. This is what John Milton did with the death of a Cambridge schoolmate, Edward King, in his famous elegy, Lycidas. King (who also died at sea) was no Kennedy, but he was a handsome young cleric and a poet on the verge of a great career. Milton's lament was for King in particular and for youth in general, cut off at a moment of high momentum...
...must have been tricky for John Kennedy Jr. to use the public life to his advantage. In Lycidas, Milton called fame "that last infirmity of Noble mind," but for Kennedy fame was not a weakness; he never had a choice about it. His cousin Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took a path away from politics too; he has exercised a gift for public duty in his work for the environment. George magazine was John's way of getting to the public, which is what publishing means...
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...woman who knows a thing or two about trying times sat next to me on the train the other day. Gladys, who now resides in Milton, Mass., survived the Blitz in England during WWII. "Those were some trying times," she recalled. "When you said goodbye to your family and friends in the morning, you never knew if would see them again...