"To die quickly in one's eighth decade at the very top of one's powers is an enviable end, and not an occasion for mourning."

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We were postwar middle-class white kids living in the slipstream of the greatest per-capita rise in income in the history of Western civilization; we were 'teen-agers' - a term, coined in 1941, that was in common usage a decade later - a new, recognizable franchise. We had money, mobility, and problems all our own.

— John Lahr