I would only add to Rich’s post that Tony Savage was also a very funny writer. One Christmas he sent round a what-we-all-did-last-year Christmas letter. I remember that he had won a Nobel Prize, perhaps several, though he wrote of it, and all his many other honors and achievements, with becoming modesty. The memory of his letter makes all the real ones, stuffed with boastful inanities, endurable. He had a great spirit; may he rest in peace.
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Historian Richard Brookhiser is a senior editor of National Review and a senior fellow at the National Review Institute.
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