The question
Who alive today do you admire most, and what draws you to them?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's Q&A repeatedly uses this prompt, sometimes dropping 'living' while retaining the same comparative judgment.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Our local doctor.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, March 2022 source ↗
An Italian neuroscientist called Rita Levi-Montalcini. She is now over 100. Under Mussolini she was forbidden from practising medicine because of the race laws. So she set up a lab in her basement, and the work she did there laid the foundations for her winning the Nobel prize.
Anybody who invests the lion’s share of their time in helping others.
Greta Thunberg, for obvious reasons.
Catherine Corless, who spent her own money to secure birth certificates for the unrecorded dead children of the Tuam mother and baby home.
Eating ice cream in the cinema, watching the trailers, with the main film about to start.
Sheridan Smith, Ed Harris, Maureen O'Hara, Matt Smith, Bear Grylls, Terry Gilliam
Search the directory for somebody in particular.