Students called Jaime Escalante “Kimo.” He called them his “burros.” But the key to his success was ganas — the drive to succeed. (As seen in “Stand and Deliver.”)
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Despite his glowing words, Jefferson thought blacks far from equal. Then a single letter took him to task.
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Stepping into Old Growth, Joan Maloof felt the forest. Now she is set on saving “the ancients.”
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Others saw TV as mindless, but George Gerbner saw it as mean. And he had the data to prove it.
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He was a computer whiz. She was his creation, programmed to debunk AI. So why did people keep “talking” to ELIZA?
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When The True Believer made his name, Eric Hoffer was a San Francisco longshoreman. Decades later, the zealots he labeled “true believers,” are still “everywhere on the march.”
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Deaf, dumb, and blind, she lived “at sea in a dense fog.” And then her teacher came. (As seen in “The Miracle Worker.”)
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