>But your description of him is precisely one he would agree to. That is the person >that comes through in the book. He disavows anything more. When he did not pitch on >Yom Kippur this was not a political act and not really a religous one (Kofax is the >prototypical non-observant Jew. And yet his act was in the modern parlance empowering >to Jews. He accepted this and tried to be a role model
I'm not sure I understand your point. Are you saying that Koufax himself would not go along with others' overestimation of him? I certainly agree with you on that, since that was my unstated point: that it was his admirers and not him who have the unfortunate tendency I noted. Koufax himself has been an extremely private person. An admirable one, but there are lots of admirable people who don't have their friends trying to glorify them. -- Tom Beck www.prydonians.org www.mercerjewishsingles.org "I always knew I'd see the first man on the Moon. I never dreamed I'd see the last." - Dr Jerry Pournelle _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
