“Just to put that in some context, 1954 was the same year that From Here to Eternity won an Oscar. Swanson's manufactured its first TV dinner. The Army-McCarthy hearings were televised. The term "under God" was inserted into the "Pledge of Allegiance." Steve Allen's Tonight Show premiered. Ernest Hemingway won the Nobel Prize for Literature. And Bob Dylan was bar mitzvahed.” YearsFirstsShowsLiteratureTermTvsEternityArmyHearingDinnerBarsTonightPrizeBobOscarsDylanPledgeAllegianceNobelNobel PrizePledge Of AllegianceBar Mitzvah Author:Kevin Sessums
“The first time I remember our being socially in the same place was after we graduated and [author, investment counselor, philanthropist, and fellow 1950s Yalie] Peter Wolf had a party at his house in the Hamptons.” FirstsRememberHousePartyFirst TimeFellowsInvestmentPeterCounselorPhilanthropistHamptons Author:Kevin Sessums
“My father was dead by the time I became a writer, and he would have had a heart attack if he had read the first thing I wrote when it came out. My mother still keeps her copy of Faggots hidden away in a bottom drawer.” IfsFirstsHeartStillsMotherFatherBottomCopiesDrawersHeart Attack Author:Kevin Sessums
“[ John] Winthrop was the man who first said America was "a city upon a hill," which [Ronald] Reagan then appropriated. There are incidents like that all through history. We have been here.” MenFirstsHas BeensSaidAmericaCitiesHe ManHillsIncidents Author:Kevin Sessums
“[Larry Kramer] got really mad at me once. The precipitating incident was a speech at Yale by the first President Bush's Secretary of Heath and Human Services, Louis Sullivan, against which Larry led a demonstration. He got the demonstrators to drown out Sullivan's speech, which wasn't allowed.” FirstsHumansPresidentSpeechMadSecretaryIncidentsPresident BushDemonstrationLarryYaleKramerHuman Service Author:Kevin Sessums
