Word: menckens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mencken is gone and I am glad, for his sake, that he is. Men of his ilk cannot live in the stifling atmosphere of modern democracy...
...Mencken's popularity would never have waned had not the present generation be come excessively neurotic about name calling...
Your Feb. 6 article on the late H. L. Mencken was excellent. Very erudite people probably will always go on recognizing him as a literary genius, but from your account, and others, I think he must have been a rude, discourteous smart aleck...
...force causing my generation to join churches, nurse our babies (indeed, have them at all!) and raise little vegetable gardens in our subdivision rectangles is not nearly so much dread of The Bomb as retreat from the dank void of Godless intellectualism that shrouded us Depression babies, and that Mencken symbolized...
Your comments on Mencken must have been anticipated by many, but few of us could have expected such a perceptive and even compassionate endorsed American critic. The intellectual maturity of a people is confirmed by the simple existence of such men, and Mencken alone may be responsible for the atmosphere that your staff inhales to such rare effect...