~DAME REBECCA WEST~

I'm sitting at my desk, rereading West's "The Judge" and listening to a rendering of Send in The Clowns from Lincoln Center on the radio... and I'm thinking that we, as a culture, are so much less than what we once were and could currently become. West was such an elegant lady: so thoroughly the artist, completely the Elegant Dame. Why can't we make women like that any more? Surely.... surely....

Bob