American culture debased
Ah, the good old days when a well used dirty word meant something.
American culture debased – - The Washington Times, Americas Newspaper
Long ago, Hemingway wrote to Perkins that “it is good for the language to restore its life that they [censors] bleed out of it. That is very important.” And maybe it was — although personally, Ive never felt cheated by the constraints your basic Dickenses and Tolstoys and, reluctantly, Hemingway operated under. But if it was necessary to restore vigor to the language then, what do we do now, when the life it too often describes — unremarkably profane, unnoticeably shameless — no longer has much meaning?
