Word: unsqueamish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only makes and sells records but provides loafing room for most of the city's hot musicians-gave Billie and others a chance to hear her sing Strange Fruit, and also provided the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People a prime piece of musical propaganda. Unsqueamish, the Commodore had not balked at recording Teacher Allan's grim and gripping lyrics, which begin...
...resiliency of human nature in these men who were being broken ... to obedience, blind, stupid obedience to fit them for service in a new realm where intelligence and self-dependence were indispensable." What Dr. Canby did not say is that The Mint, in its general mood and in its unsqueamish record of obscenity, belongs with such contemporary records as Louis-Ferdinand Celine's untranslated La Mort A Credit (Death on the Instalment Plan) and Henry Miller's obsessed story of expatriates in Paris, The Tropic of Cancer. In the Library of Congress the two copies of The Mint...
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