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What the world looked like 100 years ago

For many of us old enough to remember Archie Bunker’s living-room chair before it became a Smithsonian Museum exhibit, Norman Lear helped television comedy get over its fear of real

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I always felt Lear helped us better live peacefully and, one hopes, productively with each other at a time when the nation was becoming more racially, religiously and politically heterogeneous.

For many of us old enough to remember Archie Bunker’s living room chair before it became a Smithsonian Museum exhibit, Norman Lear helped television comedy get over its fear of real life. Lear, who died Dec. 5 at the ripe young age of 101, wrote and produced “All in the Family” and many other shows […]