Casey At Bat
Super Half time?
It’s half time.
Everybody else is probably watching a football game but I did not find the commercials to be as creative as in past years. Not only that, I was disappointed again that the half time show did not feature the NC Symphony playing Aaron Copeland’s Fanfare for the Common Man.
You gotta admit, that would be an appropriate theme for a football game, but on the other hand, what common man could afford a $50,000 seat on the fifty-yard line?
Speaking of the common man, the BT quote of the week, “Everybody’s got some good about them.”
Let me translate that. His follow up comment was, “Ben is not all bad.”
This leads to a broader question recently addressed by Dr. C. K. Moseley, recently awarded an honorary doctorate by an Oriental Daily Llama.
Back in the day, Twiggy was the name of a high-fashion, fashion model. Her name should be a clue as to her physique.
Back in the day, Alfred Eisenstaedt, the father of modern photojournalism, named Sophia Loren as the most beautiful woman to ever ride the light rays passing through the lenses of his cameras.
Obviously – the Great Creator did not endow Sophia and Twiggy with the same physical traits.
Back in the day, college men were often at a loss to understand how or why the Great Creator did not award all human attributes more equitably. Inequity in a variety of personal endowments was often the topic of in-depth, hard-hitting philosophical conversations throughout many college dorms – conversations that never reached a viable conclusion.
Man no longer needs to query the Great Creator. Dr. Moseley, special ambassador of the Daily Llama, says that the Great Creator made everybody different with a much higher purpose in mind – dependence upon one another for the common good.
The analogy to a symphony orchestra made it clear. The instruments are all so different in physical structure, appearance, and weight. Not only do they produce varying sounds, but the skills, physical strengths, and talents required to produce that array of sounds are quite different.
Dr. Moseley observes that when a great variety of musicians produces different sounds en masse, the effect is a magnificent harmony of epic proportions – Twiggy with violin, Sophia on bass.
Looking back to that long, arduous, hard-hitting, profound, in-depth, and soul-searching dialogue a half century ago in a college dorm, why did it take a half century for me to find someone like the Daily Llama’s Dr. Moseley who could explain different endowments in such understandable terms.
I am speaking of intellectual and personality endowments. That is understood, isn’t it?
Suppose we learn to understand, appreciate, and constructively work as one, using the wondrous diversity granted by the Great Creator – would the United States Congress convene in harmony?
The likelihood of that happening is as likely as the NFL choosing one of the great tenors to perform at a Super Bowl half time. On the other hand, I bet that would not be far-fetched for a soccer game in Italy.
If the NFL were to choose something like Puccini for half time, the shock would jolt the power grid and the lights would go out in the third quarter.
