Studs Terkel citáty

Louis „Studs“ Terkel byl americký historik a spisovatel. Narodil se do židovské rodiny s ruskými předky v New Yorku a ve svých osmi letech se s rodinou přestěhoval do Chicaga. Zde také docházel na Chicagskou univerzitu. Se svou ženou Idou, se kterou se oženil roku 1939 a žil s ní až do její smrti v roce 1999, měl jednoho syna. Přestože studoval právo, nikdy v tomto oboru nepracoval. Později pracoval v rozhlase. Za svou knihu The Good War z roku 1985 získal Pulitzerovu cenu. Zemřel v roce 2008 ve věku 96 let. Wikipedia  

✵ 16. květen 1912 – 31. říjen 2008
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„Co znamenal Caruso ve zpěvu, znamená Alan Lomax v muzikologii. Je to klíčová postava kulturního dění dvacátého století.“

Originál: (en) What Caruso was to singing, Alan Lomax is to musicology. He is a key figure in 20th-century culture.
Zdroj: [Pareles, Jon, Alan Lomax, Who Raised Voice Of Folk Music in U.S., Dies at 87, http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/20/arts/alan-lomax-who-raised-voice-of-folk-music-in-us-dies-at-87.html, 2002-07-20, 2015-01-17, The New York Times, New York, anglicky]

Studs Terkel: Citáty anglicky

“Heroic? I was scared shitless! But my ego was at stake. My vanity. "Whaddya mean, I'm dumb?"”

On his blacklisting in 1953
The Guardian interview (2002)
Kontext: A man comes from New York. He says, "These petitions, your name is on all of them: anti-poll tax, anti-lynching, friendship with the Soviet Union.... don't you know the communists were behind them?" And he said, "Look, you can get out of this pretty easy. All you got to do is say the communists duped you. You were dumb. You didn't mean it." I said, "But I did mean it!" To this day people say, "Oh, Studs, you were so heroic." Heroic? I was scared shitless! But my ego was at stake. My vanity. "Whaddya mean, I'm dumb?"

“Doris Lessing: We simply have no idea of Chicago … We never think of you as being on a lake, or of the city being beautiful. We think about the gangsters. You do still have gangsters, don't you?
Terkel: Yes, but these days they're mostly in business, or politics.”

Conversation with Lessing in 1969, quoted in "Doris Lessing comes to town" (15 October 1969) by Roger Ebert http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19691015/PEOPLE/71016002/1023

“I was born in the year the Titanic sank. The Titanic went down, and I came up. That tells you a little about the fairness of life.”

Regarding his 95th birthday in "Give 'Em Hell, Mr. Terkel" (16 May 2007) by Amy Goodman http://web.archive.org/web/20070613211416/http://www.alternet.org/module/printversion/51990

“The key issue is jobs. You can't get away from it: jobs. Having a buck or two in your pocket and feeling like somebody.”

http://books.google.com/books?id=FucDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT25&lpg=PT25&dq=The+key+issue+is+jobs.+You+can't+get+away+from+it:+jobs.+Having+a+buck+or+two+in+your+pocket+and+feeling+like+somebody&source=bl&ots=TYKi7WaW5v&sig=-4ggLp9hfdxXUvrZIF8U1OpGMSU&hl=en&ei=0CPkS4LSJ4P68Aakk7SpBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CAcQ6AEwAA Mother Jones Magazine - Sep 1995
The Guardian interview (2002)

“I was walking downstairs carrying a drink in one hand and a book in the other. Don't try that after ninety.”

On breaking his hip, as quoted in "How Studs helps me lead my life" in Roger Ebert's Journal (24 May 2008) http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2008/05/how_studs_helps_me_lead_my_lif_1.html#more

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