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. . . James A. Garfield (18311881) 20th President of the United States [1881]. see "POLITICS" for related links see "PEOPLE" for related links Every President who dies in office, whether from bacteria or bullets, is regarded as a martyr to the public weal, at least to some degree. James A. Garfield, whose troubled six months were marred by office mongering, was probably helped, as far as reputation was concerned, by his assassination. --Thomas A. Bailey, Libertarian politician, _Presidential Greatness_ [1966]  ;void(0)) GARLAND (JUDY) . . Judy Garland [Frances Gumm] (19221969) American motion-picture singer and actress. see "MUSIC" for related links see "PEOPLE" for related links "Abe, you know Judy Garland is almost a sure thing if she shows up. Look at how great she was in Newport. The audience couldn't get enough of her." "What do you mean if she shows up?" "She's had all these health problems induced by her out-of-control drinking, and there's the possibility that we'll book her and she'll cancel it's always a possibility with her. If that happens, we have to refund everybody's money. We also lose the money we put up for the venue, the advertising and the promotion. It's a crapshoot with her." Abe considered what I'd just said for the briefest moment, then looked at me: "Let's do it!" I nodded my head in agreement and smiled. . . . Sitting in my temporary office in the Ice Palace, keeping tabs on audience arrival, I was summoned to Judy Garland's dressing room. What could I have forgotten? Usually when an artist summons you to their dressing room moments before a performance, it spells trouble. . . . I knocked on the dressing room door and was admitted by Judy's wardrobe mistress. "Miss Garland's quite angry," she whispered. Then she announced, "Miss Garland, Mr. Bernstein is here." Judy was sitting at her dressing table, putting the finishing touches on her makeup. The bottle of liquor beside her was almost empty. "Where are the f**kin' tissues?" she muttered, as she slowly began to rise. . . "Tell me what color you'd like, Judy, and I'll send for them right away." By now, Judy was really shaky. Freddy Fields was with her, and he helped her travel the short distance to the stage, but she couldn't negotiate the stage steps, so Freddy got under her one arm and I got under the other, and together we helped her up. We looked at each other. Would she be able to perform? Onstage in complete darkness, she stood. Then a pin spotlight hit her. Judy threw back her shoulders, walked to the mike and on Mort Lindsey's cue began to sing "Somewhere Over the Rainbow." There was not a dry eye in the house. All those Garland fans knew their darling was in bad shape, and they knew why. No one at the Ice Palace that night would ever forget Judy's performance. After the show, we all went back to the hotel. Judy changed then came downstairs to the lounge to unwind and have a bite. An ensemble played and Judy asked me if I wanted to dance. How could I refuse? So here I am Sid the klutz dancing with Judy Garland, who used to dance with Fred Astaire. Judy was so drunk that I had to hold her up. I was stepping all over her feet, but she was so out of it she didn't even know. How sad to see Judy like that! A great artist but a sad, lonely woman. --Sid Bernstein (1918 ) American music promoter. _It's Sid Bernstein Calling_ [2002], "Dancing with Gerry . . . and Judy" . . see: "ANCESTORS" see "ENTERTAINMENT, HOBBIES, & LEISURE ACTIVITIES" for other related links Over there [America]..a bloodline is something you find on a pavement after a shooting. --Raymond Chandler (18881959) American writer of detective fiction. Interview, by Merrick Flynn, in the "Sun Herald," Sydney [22 January 1956]. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. --Edmund Burke (17291797) Irish-born Whig politician and man of letters. _Reflections on the Revolution in France_ [1790] You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. --Irish Proverb I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be. --Abraham Lincoln (18091865) American Republican statesman, President [18611865]. The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry, is like the potato the best part under ground. --Sir Thomas Overbury (1581?1613) English poet and essayist. It is indeed desirable to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors. --Plutarch (A.D. 46?119?) Greek philosopher and biographer. _Morals_, "Of the Training of Children" . . No generalization is worth a damn, including this one. --Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (18411935) Justice of the United States Supreme Court, legal historian, and philosopher.  GENERATION GAP . . see "AGE" for related links Each year brings new problems of Form and Content, new foes to tug with: at Twenty I tried to vex my elders, past Sixty it's the young whom I hope to bother. --W.H. [Wystan Hugh] Auden (19071973) English-born poet and man of letters. "Shorts I" [1969] The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young. --Willa Silbert Cather (18731947) American novelist. It is the one war in which everyone changes sides. --Cyril Connolly (19031974) English writer. Quoted by Tom Driberg, speech in House of Commons [30 October 1959]. Come mothers and fathers, Throughout the land And don't criticize What you can't understand. Your sons and daughters Are beyond your command Your old road is Rapidly agin' Please get out of the new one If you can't lend a hand For the times they are a-changin' --Bob Dylan [Robert Allen Zimmerman] (1941 ) American singer and songwriter. "The Times They Are A-Changin' " [1964 song] Si jeunesse savait; si viellesse pouvait. If youth knew; if age could. --Henri Estienne (15311598) French printer and publisher. "Les Prιmices" [1594] From the earliest times, the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser than they, and before the young have discoverd what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture. --W. Somerset Maugham (18741965) English novelist, playwright, and short-story writer. There's an uneasiness I have to conceal when I meet a child. I see myself through that child's eyes and remember how I regarded adults when I was small. They seemed a gray crew to me, too fond of sitting down, too keen on small talk, too accustomed to having nothing to look forward to. --Ian McEwan (1948 ) English novelist. _Enduring Love_ [1998] Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers. --Lewis Mumford (18951990) American architectural critic, urban planner, and historian. _The Brown Decades_ [1931] Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it. --George Orwell [Eric Blair] (19031950) English novelist. The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened. --Saki [Hector Hugh Munro] (18701916) Scottish writer. _Reginald_ [1904] The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool. --George Santayana (18631952) Spanish-born philosopher and critic. _Dialogues in Limbo_ [1925] When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years. --Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910) American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot. Attributed in "Reader's Digest" [September 1939], but not found in his works {ODTQ}. O Man! that from thy fair and shining youth Age might but take the things Youth needed not! --William Wordsworth (17701850) English poet. 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