As anyone knows who has ever had to set up a military encampment or build a village from the ground up, occupations pose staggering logistical problems.
The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening power at hand, not to come. It is military, theatrical, and at its most coherent probably a lasting repudiation of empty courtesy and bureaucratic euphemism.
Krista Allen, Actress (1972) |
Bette Davis, Actress (1908) |
Richard Eberhart, Poet (1904) |
Matt Emmons, Athlete (1981) |
Agnetha Faltskog, Musician (1950) |
Dan Farmer, Scientist (1962) |
Frank Gaffney, Writer (1953) |
Arthur Hailey, Novelist (1920) |
Katherine Harris, Politician (1957) |
Lily James, Actress (1989) |
Henry Seidel Canby, Critic (1961) |
Georges Jacques Danton, Revolutionary (1794) |
Chauncey Depew, Politician (1928) |
Camille Desmoulins, Journalist (1794) |
Allen Ginsberg, Poet (1997) |