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11-01-2008, 07:35 PM
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Studs Terkel
Studs Terkel, the ageless master of listening and speaking, a broadcaster, activist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author whose best-selling oral histories celebrated the common people he liked to call the "non-celebrated," died Friday. He was 96.
http://news.aol.com/article/chicago-...322x1200799034
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11-01-2008, 08:18 PM
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I loved that book, "Working." More timely than ever now -- I'm gonna see if I can find it in the library and give it another read.
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11-01-2008, 08:42 PM
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Originally Posted by Rich_in_Tampa
I loved that book, "Working." More timely than ever now -- I'm gonna see if I can find it in the library and give it another read.
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I loved that book also but no need to re-read since i'm retired. So vivid, Chicago's best.
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11-02-2008, 05:44 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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I loved that book, too. I'll request it from the library. What a good life, long lived.
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11-02-2008, 03:08 PM
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The book I remember from him is "Division Street America", not mentioned in the news reports. Real insight into Chicago, miss him and Mike Royko, if anyone remembers him.
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11-02-2008, 03:47 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by yakers
The book I remember from him is "Division Street America", not mentioned in the news reports. Real insight into Chicago, miss him and Mike Royko, if anyone remembers him.
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Oh yes, Mike Royko, (and Slats Grobnik).
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11-02-2008, 08:41 PM
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I was so sad to hear this (NPR, driving the kids home from the zoo), but then realized the man was in his mid-90's.
If anyone left behind a life well-lived, he appeared to. I also suspect that he would have enjoyed interviewing the guy who dug his grave (assuming he was buried).
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11-02-2008, 09:56 PM
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Wow, 96. Jeeze, I might need to revisit my ER calculations.
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