Quote of the day
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
Irving Howe
Born: June 11, 1920
Died: May 5, 1993 (aged 72)
Bio: Irving Howe was a Jewish American literary and social critic and a prominent figure of the Democratic Socialists of America.
Known for:
- Politics and the Novel (1957)
- A margin of hope (1982)
- Socialism and America (1985)
- A Treasury of Yiddish Stories (1954)