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WRITERS > author, critic > Elizabeth Hardwick
The language of...
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The language of the younger generation. . . has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening power . . . . It is military, theatrical, and at its most coherent probably a lasting repudiation of empty courtesy and bureaucratic euphemism.
Source: Bartleby in Manhattan and Other Essays, 1983.
-- Elizabeth Hardwick, (Jul 27 1916-2007), US author, critic; She was the first woman recipient of the Nathan Drama Criticism Award, 1967.