Nancy Burns
The main thing that stands out in my long list of memories of Sid is the astonishing way he built and managed collaborations over his 60 years of co-authorship. Never once did he do any of the standard things that make trouble for such relationships. In fact, with humor and reason, he worked to get those standard human things -- anger, resentment, selfishness, meanness, irritation, envy, and the like -- out of the way entirely. That character and organizational capacity gave him power. Of course, I also remember the way he started back to his two-finger typing before the person he'd just met with was out of the room. And I remember those astonishingly garlicky chicken shawarma sandwiches he loved. I was lucky in my time with him.
