Consider the following:
- Whittaker Chambers
- Rube Goldberg
- Neville Chamberlain
- Booker T. Washington
- Wallace Beery
- Amelia Earhart
- Willie Sutton
- Ronald Colman
- Betty Boop
- Ngo Dinh Diem
- Jack Anderson
- Eric Hoffer
- Lenny Bruce
- Dean Acheson
- Dorothy Parker
Mention those famous names in front of an audience nowadays and you'll have a sizable portion of people who won't recognize many of them. In some cases, that is simply a sign of changing fashions and with others it signals a decline in the knowledge of history. Whatever the case, it is important for speakers to remember that fame is fleeting and making assumptions about celebrity can be dangerous.
3 comments:
Betty Boop rocks.
I'm with Dan
Both of you are dangerous.
Michael
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