Most of us have jobs that are too small for our spirits.
Studs Terkel
One time,.. I was doing 'Studs Place,' my early TV show, and I'm supposed to be quitting cigars and I'm yearning for a smoke and I quote from the 'Odyssey.' I say, I am Ulysses passing the Isle of Circe. Meaning I got these temptations. Truck drivers called in and said they liked the classical reference.
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Perhaps it is this specter that most haunts working men and women: the planned obsolescence of people that is of a piece with the planned obsolescence of the things they make. Or sell.
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Promising authors in a range of fields who share Studs' fascination with everyday life in America.
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I'm seeing something and I'm not standing silent about it. Humans are pushed out to make room for cars.
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If it weren't for the warm grates we would've had 80 frozen corpses down there during the big blizzard.
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You ask what the score of the game was and they wouldn't know who's playing.
game
And They All Sang: Adventures of an Eclectic Disc Jockey.
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Race: How Blacks
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[American filmmakers ventured into Vietnam during the 1970s and 1980s with mixed results, but by the 1990s the baby boomers seemed increasingly eager to do an end run around their generation's war and all it represented, to embrace that of their fathers and grandfathers. Perhaps because, as an American veteran in the book] 'The Good War': An Oral History of World War II,.. It was the last time that most Americans thought they were innocent and good, without qualifications.
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Chicago is not the most corrupt of cities. The state of New Jersey has a couple. Need we mention Nevada? Chicago, though, is the Big Daddy. Not more corrupt, just more theatrical, more colorful in its shadiness.
sociology
I want people to talk to one another no matter what their difference of opinion might be.
people
I'm not up on the Internet, but I hear that is a democratic possibility. People can connect with each other. I think people are ready for something, but there is no leadership to offer it to them. People are ready to say, 'Yes, we are part of a world.
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I've always felt, in all my books, that there's a deep decency in the American people and a native intelligence - providing they have the facts, providing they have the information.
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If solace is any sort of succor to someone, that is sufficient. I believe in the faith of people, whatever faith they may have.
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