It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history.
Source: What's So Funny?; in The NY Times, 7 Jul 1968.
-- Renata Adler, (Oct 19 1938-____), US journalist, writer; She was a staff writer-reporter forßThe New Yorker, and chiefßfilm criticßforßThe New York Times.