That delightful story would be more so, but for Wright's age. He was 60. Unless 60 no longer counts as old. If so, that is a mixed blessing.
Life always supplies thorns with the roses.
Mrs. Alexander Hamilton, final survivor of the founders' circle, died in Washington in 1854 in her 97th year. She had lived the entire life of the Republic. So had the slave interviewed in Virginia during the 1862 Peninsula Campaign, who recalled hearing cannonading at the Battle of Yorktown 81 years earlier. Someone who now is 60 has lived 26.6 percent of the nation's life. Perhaps it is just the result of immersion in journalism or of living in an obsessively political city, where last week's world-shaking events are forgotten, and epochal figures are forever rising without a trace.