Barry Mazor posted:
Paul Simon, who knew some things about what silence sounded like, had
this to say in the NY Times this morning; what's interetsing about it to me
is the indication that the very smart DiMaggio understood some of
this--that there was BOTH yearning and some ironic comment in
He was a good man, a kind man who knew the
rules and the oddities in life and always
strove to be honest and charitable. When told that he would be throwing
out the first ball in Yankee Stadium this year, Joe just smiled - that faint
smile Joe always gave when in his soul he knew truth
The passing of Joe DiMaggio is understandably being taken hard in the
streets of New York City, consuming conversations here, and, I bet,
elsewhere.
This man strikes a deep chord around these parts. He was the perfect
symbol of the best of my father's WWII generation, a man who maintained
that
