Gore Vidal proposed in 1959 that love "be adopted as the American theater's official anthem. Just name your problem, sit back and let love solve it: race prejudice, foreign relations -- even Job reeling beneath the unkind attentions of a dubious Yale God gets off the hook at the end through Love." That Yale reference is mysterious now, but the rest holds up. Love is still the grand panacea in American popular... More >>>