Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the twentieth century has been to make the young old before their time.
As a result of my philosophy, I wasn't even upset about Hitler. I was willing to go to war to knock him off, but I didn't hate him. I hated what he was doing.
Arthur Capper, Politician (1865) |
Gerald Finzi, Composer (1901) |
Gerald R. Ford, President (1913) |
Laurieann Gibson, Director (1969) |
Natalia Ginzburg, (1916) |
Claudia Kennedy, Soldier (1947) |
Patrick J. Kennedy, Politician (1967) |
Arthur Laurents, Playwright (1918) |
Jerome Lawrence, Playwright (1915) |
Edward Fitzgerald, Poet (1883) |
Lawrence Hargrave, Scientist (1915) |