Russell Baker
Russell Baker
Russell Wayne Bakeris an American writer known for his satirical commentary and self-critical prose, as well as for his Pulitzer Prize-winning autobiography Growing Up. He was a columnist for The New York Times from 1962 to 1998, and also hosted the PBS show Masterpiece Theatre from 1992 to 2004...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMemoirist
Date of Birth14 August 1925
CityMorrisonville, VA
CountryUnited States of America
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Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it.
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How many more years will our educators continue to lecture us on the evils of whipping children until they bring home high grades? Year after year we listen to these fellows tell us that it is not the grade that counts but the development of the child's personality. After the lecture they go back to all the best schools and reject our children because they have C averages.
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Voters inclined to loathe and fear elite Ivy League schools rarely make fine distinctions between Yale and Harvard. All they know is that both are full of rich, fancy, stuck-up and possibly dangerous intellectuals who never sit down to supper in their undershirt no matter how hot the weather gets.
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Those people who taught Hubert Humphrey a lesson will still be enjoying the Nixon Supreme Court when Tricia and Julie begin to find silver threads among the gold and the black
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Objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.
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People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.
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New York is the only city in the world where you can get run down on the sidewalk by a pedestrian.
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Situation comedy on television has thrived for years on "canned" laughter grafted by gaglines by technicians using records of guffawing audiences that have been dead for years.
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Life is always walking up to us and saying, ''Come on in, the living's find,'' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.
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Rereading A.J. Liebling carries me happily back to an age when all good journalists knew they had plenty to be modest about, and were.
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Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major categories - those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.
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Can't anything be done about calling these guys student athletes? That's like referring to Attila the Hun's cavalry as ""weekend warriors
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I gave up on new poetry myself thirty years ago, when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens on a hostile world.
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A solved problem creates two new problems, and the best prescription for happy living is not to solve any more problems than you have to.