Studs Terkel, RIP
Nov. 1st, 2008 11:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
temperance14"I think it's realistic to have hope. One can be a perverse idealist and say the easiest thing: 'I despair. The world's no good.' That's a perverse idealist. It's practical to hope, because the hope is for us to survive as a human species. That's very realistic."
Here is a great NPR page, that includes a LOT of audio that Studs did for various public radio programs. Included is his appearance on NPR's Wait Wait Don't Tell Me earlier in this decade. On this episode, he makes reference to what might be his epitaph:
"Curiosity didn't kill this cat"
Here is a great NPR page, that includes a LOT of audio that Studs did for various public radio programs. Included is his appearance on NPR's Wait Wait Don't Tell Me earlier in this decade. On this episode, he makes reference to what might be his epitaph:
"Curiosity didn't kill this cat"
