Among the Intellectualoids
Desired Things
The death of Les Crane last week allows us to retrace the story of the soppy poem “Desiderata.”
p>The death last week of Les Crane, sometime talk-show host,
actor, musician and software tycoon, serves to remind us of the
passing of another of the comic monuments of the generation of
peace and love, which was Crane’s Grammy-winning reading of the
soppy poem “Desiderata” by Max Ehrmann in 1971. You know the one I
mean. It starts:
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em>Go placidly amid the noise and the haste,
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and remember what peace there may be in silence.
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And it ends:
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em>You are a child of the universe
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no less than the trees and the stars;
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you have a right to be here.
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And whether or not it is clear to you,
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James Bowman, our movie and culture critic, is a resident scholar at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. He is the author of Honor: A History and Media Madness: The Corruption of Our Political Culture, both published by Encounter Books.
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