“The daily press, the immediate media, is superb at synecdoche, at giving us a small thing that stands for a much larger thing. Reporters on the ground, embedded or otherwise, can tell us about or send us pictures of what happened in that place at that time among those people.”
“I'm not here to put down men, God love them and I'm married to one, but I do think they are more shallow.”
| Peter Abrahams, Novelist (1919) |
| Georg Cantor, Mathematician (1845) |
| Will Eisner, Cartoonist (1917) |
| Tyler Florence, Chef (1971) |
| Ira Glass, Journalist (1959) |
| Jean Harlow, Actress (1911) |
| Willie Keeler, Athlete (1872) |
| Sidney Lanier, Poet (1842) |
| Danny Kaye, Actor (1987) |