Word: terkel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Terkel, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, oral historian, journalist, radio host and raconteur, moved deftly from generalizations to particulars...
...work as a way of informing us about peoples' lives," Terkel said...
...America suffers from what I like to call the 'National Alzheimer's Disease,'" Terkel mused in light of a question concerning the best way of teaching the nation's youngest children a sense of history and identity...
Many in yesterday's audience agreed with Terkel about the loss of memory and the loss of national recollection...
...most serious discussion came when Terkel recounted his experience with a man at a bus stop in Chicago. When Terkel found out that the man opposed organized labor, he asked him: "How many hours a day do you work...