Norman Lear

20th-Century Genius Award
After hours of extensive research I have discovered an individual whose work and artistic contributions can be classified in both the Age of Modernism and the Age of Pluralism for the 20th Century Genius Award. I nominate American television writer and producer Norman Lear for the 20th-Century Genius award. Norman Lear has enjoyed a long career in television and film, and as a political and social activist and philanthropist.   I be believe that his accomplishments were significant with the major changes that have happened around the world in the past 50 years or greater and will impact the world for many years to come.
New Haven, Connecticut was the place of Norma Lear's birth. He was born   on July 27, 1922, and attended Emerson College for over a year before deciding to drop out and fight in   World War II.   In 1945 he decided to leave the Army to pursue a career in comedy writing, but this later   changed into screenwriting and producing for television. Lear's family was Jewish   his parents, Herman and Jeanette Lear, had jobs in sales. At the age of 9   his father was sentenced to a three year prison sentence for fraud. While his father was incarcerated, his role models were his grandfather and his uncle. Lear's grandfather composed regular letters to the president on the different political issues . Lear later announced that his grandfather's political participation taught him a lesson he never forgot: "that a citizen can matter." Nevertheless, Lear never imagined himself growing up to be a rich and famous celebrity. "All I wanted was to grow up to be a guy who could flip a quarter to a nephew," he once said. He served as a radio operator and gunner during World War II, flying 52 combat missions in the Mediterranean Theater and earning the Air Medal with four oak leaf clusters. Lear left the military in 1945, and worked for four years in public relations before embarking on a career as a freelance comedy writer . In 1950, Norman Lear...