Studs Terkel
Studs Terkel
Louis "Studs" Terkel was an American author, historian, actor, and broadcaster. He received the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1985 for "The Good War", and is best remembered for his oral histories of common Americans, and for hosting a long-running radio show in Chicago...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth16 May 1912
CountryUnited States of America
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One day I visited a guy who had made a fortune as a broker. He was sitting in his office with his computer. I hire people from here and make deals from this room, he told me. Then he took me to the trading room. Nobody was talking to anybody else, the place was silent as a tomb, they were all sitting there watching their terminals - a great word, terminal. I tell you, it scares the crap out of me.
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Studs could have grown up in New York, Chicago or any dirty, industrial city full of conflict, hustle and color. He could definitely not have grown up in San Francisco or L.A.
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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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Not because of its commercial value, but the name of Field's represents our past, ... The past is being erased.
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And They All Sang: Adventures of an Eclectic Disc Jockey.
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You ask what the score of the game was and they wouldn't know who's playing.
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Aug. 9, the day of the operation, you know what day that was? Sixty years to the day the bomb dropped on Nagasaki. Amazing... the human race designs something like that, something that kills, and then the same human race designs things to save human life.
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Race: How Blacks & Whites Think & Feel About the American Obsession.
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promising authors in a range of fields who share Studs' fascination with everyday life in America.
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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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So here we are. We have a choice to make.
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His ingenuity and his faith in the good taste of people are what made WFMT. He believed the public ? and by that he meant ordinary people ? deserved the best in broadcasting.
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His ingenuity and his faith in the good taste of people are what made WFMT, ... He believed the public--and by that he meant ordinary people--deserved the best in broadcasting.
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The pharaohs didn't lift a finger. That's king and queen. Mrs. Pharaoh's fingernails were as immaculately manicured as Elizabeth Taylor's in Cleopatra. Who built the pyramids? Anonymous slaves down through the centuries.