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I was making my way down the long row of biography in our excellent used bookstore today and my eye fell on a Levant title. It made me recall that in our household growing up my parents mentioned his name with the same sort of reverence the townspeople of Rock Ridge reserved for Randolph Scott.
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I was just a kid and I don't think I liked him very much at that time. But I grew to like him a lot as I got older. Besides his Gershwin recordings, I've always admired that recording he made with Dimitri Mitropoulos of Anton Rubinstein's Fourth Piano Concerto - he still believed in that work, even when it was on its decline as far as the general audience was concerned. And of course he was a master of quick-witted repartee. One of my favorites has always been, "I think a lot of Bernstein - but not as much as he does."! And then there's the one you refer to:
"A politician is a man who will double cross that bridge when he comes to it."
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