Alan Jay Lerner Quotes
I could have danced all night!
Lerner, Alan Jay. My Fair Lady. Coward-McCann, 1956.
Although a member of the same party, Thatcher was his implacable enemy. When he had been the sitting Conservative Prime Minister, Thatcher hade led a successful movement to have him unseated by the party. In the British system even though the voters had elected a party with its candidate for Prime Minister, the winning party can change the Prime Minister at any time. Although this is not usual, this is what happened to Heath. After serving three terms, Thatcher herself was unseated by a Conservative Party faction led by John Major, and Heath expressed his emotion at the news. Heath had so despised Thatcher that he refused to serve in any way in her cabinet, unusual in the British system where former Prime Ministers often serve in Parliament and later may serve as cabinet ministers to another prime minister.
Alan Jay Lerner was an American lyricist and librettist. In collaboration with Frederick Loewe, and later Burton Lane, he created some of the world's most popular and enduring works of musical theatre both for the stage and on film. He won three Tony Awards and three Academy Awards, among other honors.
