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The attitude to sexual love in the 'pop' song is so ugly and mechanical as to seem schizoid, and psychopathological. Exposed as they are to such powerful cultural statements, young people are being encouraged to forfeit genuine commitment in love in favour of depersonalised sexual activity, with an undercurrent of violence, and to take false solutions in which they must deny their deepest needs, by hate.
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Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
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David Holbrook
Born:
January 9, 1923
Died:
August 11, 2011
(aged 88)
Bio:
David Kenneth Holbrook was a British writer, poet and academic. From 1989 he was an Emeritus Fellow of Downing College, Cambridge.
Known for:
Flesh Wounds (1966)
Sylvia Plath: Poetry and Existence (1976)
Sex & dehumanization (1972)
English for maturity (1961)
Edith Wharton and the unsatisfactory man (1991)
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