"After a fun evening together with Kay and me, in a momentary wave ofdespair at his home, he took his life, " Pastor Warren wrote in an e-mail to his staff Saturday.
Nevertheless, he said he visited his son four days ago and the man appeared fine and gave no hint of the despair that could drive him to take his own life.
His favorite was Tony Hancock, a comic wedded to despair, in his life as much as in his work. (Hancock died of an overdose in 1968.) Harvey had him on vinyl: a pristine, twenty-year-old set of LPs.
This utter blindness is striking and brings me despair, yet our thinking about education is strangely unaffected by the common sense that fills other areas oflife.