In California in the early Spring, There are pale yellow mornings, when the mist burns slowly into day, The air stings like Autumn, clarifies like pain - Well, I have dreamed this coast myself.
There is sometimes a peculiar confusion in the West that equates progress to whatever is recent or whatever is new, and it is time we understood that progress has nothing to do with the chronology of an idea.
Brian Aldiss, Writer (1925) |
Marcel Carne, Director (1906) |
Rosalynn Carter, First Lady (1927) |
Luciano De Crescenzo, Writer (1928) |
Paula Danziger, Author (1944) |
Marshall Field, Businessman (1834) |
Just Fontaine, Athlete (1933) |
Timothy Geithner, Public Servant (1961) |
Marvin Harris, Scientist (1927) |
Marvin Isley, Musician (1953) |
Honore De Balzac, Novelist (1850) |
John P. Kennedy, Soldier (1870) |
Persis Khambatta, Actress (1998) |