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Nat Hentoff Biography

Nathan Irving "Nat" Hentoff (June 10, 1925 – January 7, 2017) was an American historian, novelist, jazz and country music critic, and syndicated columnist for United Media. Hentoff was a columnist for The Village Voice from 1958 to 2009. Following his departure from The Village Voice, Hentoff became a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, continued writing his music column for The Wall Street Journal, which published his works until his death. He often wrote on First Amendment issues, vigorously defending the freedom of the press.

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Do not categorize about music. You take each musician at the time and open yourself to that musician.

Music, Musician, Open, Take, Time

The media ignores what is really going on.

Ignores, Media

I don't like to feel intimidated by where I make a living.

Feels, Intimidated, Like, Living, Make

You have to be careful about what you do, about what you say, and that is more dangerous than what was happening with [John] McCarthy, but the technology the government now possesses is so much more insidious.

Government, Insidious, Possesses, Technology

That [race] is still part of what [Barack Obama] is riding on. Except that, too, is diminishing.

Barack, Obama, Race, Riding

I am an atheist, although I very much admire and have been influenced by many traditionally religious people.

Atheist, Influenced, People, Religious

I was introduced to jazz, and that's become a basic concern and passion of mine ever since.

Basic, Concern, Introduced, Jazz, Passion

[My father] was very impressed when he saw "Death of a Salesman," I must say. He recognized himself to some extent.

Father, Saws, Salesman, Saw, Extent

That term was used with hyperbole about the parts of the health care bill where doctors are mandated, if people are on Medicare and of a certain age or in serious physical condition, to counsel them on their end-of-life alternatives. I don't believe that was a death panel.

Age, Believe, Doctors, Panel, People, Serious

The need for a pro-life point of view undergirds everything you do.

Everything, Needs, Pro Life, Undergirds, View, Views

[Barack Obama to be] much worse [than George W. Bush].

Barack, Bush, George, Obama, Worse

I wish [my wife] would [work] because - especially now the kind of - I mean, honesty is hardly the word. She writes with a ferocity of clarity that - nobody else around has now.

Honesty, Kind, Mean, Wife, Writing

As Harry Blackmun said when he wrote Roe v. Wade, `Once a child is born, the child has basic constitutional rights: due process, equal protection of the laws. '

Blackmun, Born, Children, Equal, Law, Rights

In the recent Virginia election, the black vote diminished. Now why was that? I think a lot of black folks are wondering what this guy is really going to do, not only for them but for the country. If the country is injured, they will be injured. That may be sinking in.

Country, Injured, Think, Thinking, Virginia, Wondering

[A. J. Muste] was very influenced - in - influential in the peace movement, in the civil rights movement.

Civil, Influential, Movement, Rights

[A. J. Muste] never engaged in violence but he believed, as [Mahatma] Gandhi did - and he knew Gandhi slightly - he believed that a pacifist had to be active in the community.

Community, Gandhi, Muste, Pacifist, Violence

[Bill Shawn] didn't edit the writers very strongly, but he knew what he wanted.

Bill, Bills, Edit, Edits, Shawn, Wanted

The people I admire are those who keep on producing and working and going on.

Admire, People, Producing, Working

I have been in schools around the country, and I have written on education for years. Once, I was once doing a profile on Justice William Brennan and I was in his chambers, and Brennan asked, "How do we get the words of the Bill of Rights into the lives of the students?" Well, it is not difficult. You tell them stories.

Country, Education, Lives, Rights, School, Schools

My favorite story about O'Connor - one of them - is I was in Toronto at a pro-life conference. I had a session before he was to come on,I thought very moderately - that not have unwanted abortions was to have much more research on contraception. Two true-faith people came out of the audience, wrested the microphone out of my hand and said, `That is im - inappropriate, improper. Pro-lifers do not believe in contraception. ' [John] O'Connor's watching this said,`I want to tell you I'm delighted that Nat is not a member of the Catholic Church. We have enough trouble as it is. '

Believe, Came, Come, Conference, Hands, Two

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