'No one has influenced American television more than Norman Lear. Think about it, and you will realize it is true,' writes Jeffrey Salkin.
Think about it, and you will realize it is true. Lear transformed a medium that offered us bland, suburban stories into narratives that were simultaneously funny and cutting. The 1970s unfolded through those stories — “All in the Family,” “Maude,” “The Jeffersons,” “Good Times,” “Sanford and Son.” Lear single-handedly put such issues as race, class, sexuality and bigotry before Americans.
But Lear had another role, a temporary role — as a Jewish thinker, and a commentator on American spirituality.Being God’s Partner: How to Find the Hidden Link Between Spirituality and Your Work Whether Lear knew it or not, he was essentially channeling Abraham Joshua Heschel. More than that, he was, perhaps unwittingly, creating a “commercial” for Shabbat — as a time for the qualitative, rather than the quantitative, a time of awe and wonder and meaning.Most Americans are aware that we, as a nation, are not enjoying our material success.
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