Don Rickles (1926-2017), master of the insult comedy, known as "The Merchant of Venom" and (ironically) "Mr. Warmth".
Too many people (especially the President) of the Boom Generation still deserve his sort of skewering.
I missed:
Richard Bolles, author of What Color Is Your Parachute?, career guidance for multitudes.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko. Soviet/Russian poet.
Thomas Brandis, great violinist (concert master and chamber ensembles).
Too many people (especially the President) of the Boom Generation still deserve his sort of skewering.
I missed:
Richard Bolles, author of What Color Is Your Parachute?, career guidance for multitudes.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko. Soviet/Russian poet.
Thomas Brandis, great violinist (concert master and chamber ensembles).
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.