Friday 30 May 2014

{The Coming-of-Age of America [continued]}[6th January 1976]

[Redbook2:76A-J][19760106:0000a]{The Coming-of-Age of America [continued]}[6th January 1976]

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That, too, marks the eventual transfer of the centre of the English-speaking culture across the Atlantic: a transfer which, for all our stridency, we can do nothing about. Why should we be ashamed? The new hands are safer than ours; and ours (or our fathers') largely shaped what they receive. And there is no reason why we should not continue to contribute to that culture as much as we now do.

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