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Arthur Miller Bowdlerizes Ibsen.
- Source :
- Nation; 5/5/1951, Vol. 172 Issue 18, p423-424, 2p
- Publication Year :
- 1951
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Abstract
- Self-styled "realists" of both the right and the left sometimes maintain that all "tolerance" is a fraud. No one, they say, really believes in "free speech" except on topics concerning which he is indifferent: if most people believe in the freedom of religion, that merely means that most people don't take religion very seriously. There are always "limits to free speech," and legitimate freedom is always assumed to end where actual concern begins. For Catholics, therefore, it ends this side of "blasphemy"; for the patriot, this side the "attack on our liberties"; for the Jew, this side of "anti-Semitism"; and so on.
- Subjects :
- RELIGION
ANTISEMITISM
SPEECH
CATHOLICS
CIVIL rights
SYMBOLISM
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00278378
- Volume :
- 172
- Issue :
- 18
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Nation
- Publication Type :
- Periodical
- Accession number :
- 13369777