• The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening power at hand, not to come. It is military, theatrical, and at its most coherent probably a lasting repudiation of empty courtesy and bureaucratic euphemism.

  Elizabeth Hardwick
  American literary critic, novelist, and short story writer 1916-2007
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1. bureaucratic
2. repudiation
3. assertion
4. euphemism
5. coherent
6. probably

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The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening power at hand, not to come. It is military, theatrical, and at its most coherent probably a lasting repudiation of empty courtesy and bureaucratic euphemism. by : Elizabeth Hardwick

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