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Leftist causes continue to invigorate residents of a Los Angeles retirement home for radicals.
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Bill McKibben
Posted on February 24, 2005 at 09:02 AM | Permalink
Review of Sunset Hall
If, as someone once said, a 20-year-old who isn't a socialist has no heart and a 40 year old who is a socialist has no head, what can you say about an 80-year-old who has never wavered for a moment? That they have no teeth, probably, and that they live at Sunset Hall. This is a lovely piece; it would have been easy to make fun of these guys, and easy to be sentimental about them, but this avoids both pitfalls. A real testament to appealing crankiness!