“And now it’s all right. It’s okay.
And you may look the other way.
We can try to understand
The New York Times’ effect on man.
“Whether you’re a brother
Or whether you’re a mother,
You’re stayin’ alive, stayin’ alive.”
— Bee Gees, 1977
I have the amazingly good fortune of being alive. I’m 84. More than half the people who were born in 1935, the year of my birth, are gone. I…