Tribute to Michael Harrington

Where did he get the energy? Apart from his amazing productivity and range of activities, he even looked energetic, like a light bulb. Not having been among his personal friends, I have no intimate insight into this mystery. I observed him from a seat in the fifteenth row. But that was the ideal place for noticing what the energy managed to achieve.

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