23 February 2014

Freedom to Read Week: Hugh MacLennan's Profane and Vulgar Barometer Rising



The Calgary Herald, 9 December 1960

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  1. Has the book-banning impulse dissipated over the decades in Canada, or does it remain a problem?

    From a curious reader on the U.S. Gulf coast, the rusty buckle of the Bible belt where school districts still get their knickers in a knot every now and then about certain books.

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    1. I'm please to report that it has indeed dissipated, RTD. Gone are the days when, say, the RCMP would raid the Vancouver Public Library. Men like Lt.-Col. John Merner are now the focus of well-deserved ridicule. There's a museum not far from me that has a display dedicated to the work of Elinor Glyn. I try to remind myself of these things in those increasingly rare instances in which censors rear their ugly heads. Theirs is a losing struggle.

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