Apparently Pete Seeger is still alive. Who knew?
How did the old song go?
“They gave him his orders at Party headquarters,
Sayin’, “Pete, you’re way behind time —
It is not ’38 but 1957,
and there’s been a change in the Party line.”
Something like that, anyway.
So’s David Coleman.
Of balls fame?
I think it’s something about getting older. I keep hearing of people who used to be famous and saying “S/he’s not still alive, is s/he?” – only to find quite often they’re only a year or two older than me.
Impressive, but not as impressive as Claude Lévi-Strauss who’s gone on longer than Bertrand Russell now.
Yes — it was one of Perry Anderson’s LRB articles not so long ago about intellectual life in France which pointed out that CL-S was still alive, and that prompted a similar “bloody hell” like reaction.
Kewl, Pete Seeger is someone I should go back to.