A friend of theirs once took Christopher Hitchens and his wife
Carol Blue to dinner at Palm Beach's
Everglades Club, notorious for its exclusion of Jews.
"You will behave, won't you?" Carol anxiously asked
Christopher on the way into the club. No dice.
When the headwaiter approached, Christopher demanded:
"Do you have a kosher menu?"
Christopher was never a man to back away from a confrontation on behalf of
what he considered basic decency. Yet it would be wrong to remember only the confrontational side.
Christopher was also a man of exquisite sensitivity
and courtesy, dispensed without regard to
age or station.
from The Huffington Post
Our ABC regularly interviewed Christopher Hitchens, I always enjoyed these events and will miss them in the future. xxx
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ReplyDeletei didn't agree with him most of the time....
but i did find him to be brilliant and courageous.
instead of stupid and courageous like our presidential hopefuls over here!!
There's a great story like this about a night he dined out with Martin Amis - he never behaved!
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