The American Spectator

Among the Intellectualoids

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: br> /p> blockquote> em>Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, br> and remember what peace there may be in silence. /em> /blockquote> br> And it ends: br> blockquote> em>You are a child of the universe br> no less than the trees and the stars; br> you have a right to be here. br> And whether or not it is clear to you,

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