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liberated
generation:
an illusion

tically speaking, this is the problem
of "America" as a verbal image.
Can its essence ever be assigned a
name? If we say "America equals
freedom" will we fool ourselves
into believing it? On September 19
Time said:

The image of a generation
blessed with a swinging,
liberated language is largely
illusion. Despite its swaggering
sexual candor, much
contemporary speech still
hides behind the traditional
enemy of plain talk, the
euphemism.

America is "telling it like it isn't."
Hitler's assigning the murder of the
Jews the name endguttige Losung
(final solution) and Provost Horeford's
assumption that a quota
system for women is a safeguard for
men are not so far removed from
America's Image of itself as "land
of the free" - slogans are convenient
respite from what Time calls
"the areas of life that humanity