To say that an idea is fashionable is to say, I think, that is has been adulterated to a point where it is hardly an idea at all.
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Nationality: American Type: Journalist Born: December 16, 1917 Death: May 5, 1997 |
In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.
At 11, I passed the scholarship - only just; I wasn't very good at maths - to Ilford County High for Girls. When the Second World War started we were evacuated, first of all to Ipswich, and then to Aberdare, Queen of the Valleys, in south Wales.

