Re: A neat thing about de T
de T is of course the child of his time, as we are the children of ours. We should probably take this opportunity to repudiate the notion of "progress": enlightened thinking (or "political correctness" if you insist) almost always proves a moving target.
Thirty years ago I had to be physically restrained by a kind classmate from assaulting an earnest young woman who stood up in class to denounce G.B. Shaw for sexism--because he had not, in 1892's Widowers' Houses, contrived to reach the high standards of gender politics we'd achieved that spring quarter of 1973.
I regret to this day that I didn't strangle her. I'd likely have been released from prison by now.
cordially,
