Amboy Dukes and other banned works

[Joel S. Berson]

At 9/8/2008 12:20 PM, Baker, John wrote:
>         I believe that Doctor Dolittle made the list because of
>derogatory references to African and island natives.

[dagger] How odd -- I assumed that books got on the banned lists
because of *laudatory* references to Africans and island natives --
and to sex. [inverted dagger]

Joel

P.S.  dagger & inverted dagger are the HTML marking for irony on /
irony off, invented by "the worthy professor of Romance Languages at
Cornell, onetime president of the Modern Language Association Morris
Bishop (*A Bowl of Bishop* 1954):  "Take Your Tongue Out of Your
Cheek and Be Comfortable".  [Poem upon request.]

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