Word: terkel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Terkel listed the themes of his book as the cornerstones of this century; the Depression, World War II, McCarthyism, the 1960s and the computer...
...Terkel also delved into the problems of young Americans, worrying about the new oxymoron of "conservative youth...
...Terkel asked the two people how many hours they worked each day. Taken a little off guard, they responded eight. He then asked them whether they were familiar with the Haymarket Affair, where "four guys got hanged fighting for the eight-hour work...
...importance of history was Terkel's recurring theme. "There is no past among the youth. How can they be put down if their history has been deprived of them?" he asked...
...Terkel also spoke of an epidemic of "national Alzheimer's no yesterday means no memory...