If W.H. Auden were around today, Lynne Cheney's powerhouse brain police, the American Council of Trustees and Alumni, would have nailed him in a new report as part of the "BLAME AMERICA FIRST" for these lines from his poem "September 1, 1939": I and the public know / What all schoolchildren learn: Those to whom evil is done / Do evil in return. "In order to save Western Civilization, it was necessary to destroy it."
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Lady's "Educational" Foundation Takes Aim At Academia For Dissent
In the immediate aftermath of the terrorist attacks on September 11, the most widely-cited work of literature was W.H Auden Original: Second Lady's "Educational" Foundation Takes Aim At Academia For Dissent |