The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening power at hand, not to come. It is military, theatrical, and at its most coherent probably a lasting repudiation of empty courtesy and bureaucratic euphemism. - Elizabeth Hardwick

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Elizabeth Hardwick: "The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening power at hand, not to come. It is military, theatrical, and at its most coherent probably a lasting repudiation of empty courtesy and bureaucratic euphemism."

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Assertion	Brutality	Bureaucratic	City
Coherent	Courtesy	Empty	Euphemism
Generation	Hand	Language	Lasting
Military	Most	Power	Probably
Repudiation	Theatrical	Threatening	Younger

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