Daniel Schlozman
For decades, Sidney was a source of inspiration. When I was born, he composed a poem:
Who was the bravest in the lion's den?
Who was the boldest of the frontier men?
Who was the nineteenth-century speaker?
Who was the Pentagon Papers leaker?
Who invented benign neglect?
And who, when he's thirty, or forty, or fifty, will still call his parents collect?
And, when in graduate school, feeling stuck, I did the equivalent of calling collect and appeared in his office, he said what needed to be said: "The only good dissertation is a done dissertation."
