Truly moral decline

Peter K. peterk at enteract.com
Sat Sep 23 14:02:39 PDT 2000


http://lrb.co.uk/v22/n09/hitc2209.htm


>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.
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>I didn't think serious people still said things like that about
>RnR. But that begs a further question...
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>How quaint.
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>Joseph Noonan
>Houston, TX
>jfn1 at msc.com
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