Autograph letter signed : [Sag Harbor, New York], to "Alicia," [1966 May 21].

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Autograph letter signed : [Sag Harbor, New York], to "Alicia," [1966 May 21].

Discussing the student anti-war protests and their "right to speak or print four-letter words on the campus as well as off it;" saying that his "only reservation about this doesn't come from a censorious impulse, but one of conservation. We don't have many four-letter words of sturdy quality and when you use them up, there's no place to go. Also, overuse milks all the strength out of them;" relating the words of Ernie Pyle in Casablanca before he passed out.

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