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Let us instance one respect in which American life has recently undergone a great change. We allude to its increased devotion to pleasure, to happiness, to dancing, to sport… to the delights of the country, to laughter, and to all forms of cheerfulness.

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In my day, when you called on a girl, her mother was always hollering down to see if she was still unraped, the maid would look in, her father would shuffle his feet in another room. Today the boy calls up, says, ‘Meet you at the back door of Stern’s.’

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April 27, 2024

In my day, when you called on a girl, her mother was always hollering down to see if she was still unraped, the maid would look in, her father would shuffle his feet in another room. Today the boy calls up, says, ‘Meet you at the back door of Stern’s.’

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April 27, 2024

The pertinent question: if Americans did not want these wars should they have been compelled to fight them?

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