Source: The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1976), Chapter 3, The Sensibility of the Sixties, p. 131
“But ordinary language is all right.”
Source: 1930s-1951, The Blue Book (c. 1931–1935; published 1965), p. 28
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Context: I have just been talking about forces of potential destruction that mankind has developed, and how we might control them. It is equally important that we remember the beneficial forces that we have evolved over the ages, and how to hold fast to them.
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