Elizabeth Hardwick Quotes
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The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening power at hand, not to come. It is military, theatrical, and at its most coherent probably a lasting repudiation of empty courtesy and bureaucratic euphemism.
Elizabeth Hardwick
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Author Details:
Type:
Critic Quotes
Category:
American Critic Quotes
Date of Birth:
July 27, 1916
Date of Death:
December 2, 2007
Nationality:
American
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Assertion,
Brutality,
Bureaucratic,
City,
Coherent,
Come,
Courtesy,
Empty,
Euphemism,
Generation,
Hand,
Language,
Lasting,
Military,
Most,
Power,
Probably,
Repudiation,
Theatrical,
Threatening
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