The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.
Running a school where the students all succeed, even if some students have to help others to make the grade, is good preparation for democracy.
| Alphonse Allais, Writer (1854) |
| Chris Cannon, Politician (1950) |
| John Dewey, Philosopher (1859) |
| Peter G. Fitzgerald, Politician (1960) |
| Dan Fogler, Comedian (1976) |
| Theodore Hall, Criminal (1925) |
| Kamala Harris, Lawyer (1964) |
| Charles Ives, Composer (1874) |
| Wanda Jackson, Musician (1937) |
| Elfriede Jelinek, Playwright (1946) |
| Grace Darling, Celebrity (1842) |
| Eugene V. Debs, Politician (1926) |
| Burt Lancaster, Actor (1994) |

