Listening to a panel about _Ravelstein_ on CSPAN-2 hosted by the Husdon Institute Gertrude Himmlfarb just farted and out came: "Rock and Roll music is true moral and cultural decay, and therefore cannot be held as 'harmless'". That's a pretty close, though not exact quote and was uttered to undermine the notion that Alan Bloom's sybaritic 'eccentricities' were not OK.
I didn't think serious people still said things like that about RnR. But that begs a further question...
How quaint.
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Joseph Noonan Houston, TX jfn1 at msc.com