Tuesday, January 05, 2021
Boston Schoolboys
George Jean Nathan and H.L. Mencken, The American Credo: A Contribution Toward the Interpretation of the National Mind (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1920), p. 181, § 429:
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That all the schoolboys in Boston have bulged brows, wear large spectacles and can read Greek.The American Credo is the American equivalent of Flaubert's Dictionnaire des idées reçues.