Born:
September 17, 1937
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We try to organize the world, which isn't organized the way our brains want to organize it. We tell stories about the people in our lives, we project ideas onto them. We project relationships with people, we make our lives into stories. I don't think we can avoid doing that.
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.
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Elliott Carter, Composer (1908) |
Mos Def, Musician (1973) |
Teri Garr, Actress (1944) |
Harold Hamm, Businessman (1945) |
Jim Harrison, Writer (1937) |
Jermaine Jackson, Musician (1954) |
Stu Jackson, Coach (1955) |
John F. Kerry, Politician (1943) |
Bob Bartlett, Politician (1968) |
James J. Gibson, Psychologist (1979) |
Christian Lous Lange, Politician (1938) |