 Who would the author most agree with about swearing?
Blasphemy would be closer to it. Britain's great postwar drama critic was no fan of American football, but he was a fan of swearing. Thirty years earlier, almost to the week, Tynan was interviewed on BBC television in his capacity as literary director of Britain's National Theater and asked if he would allow the theater to present a play in which sex took place on stage. "I think there are very few rational people in this world to whom the word '[expletive]' is particularly diabolical or revolting or totally forbidden." Swearing isn't the only public act that Western civilization condones today but didn't 30 years ago.
 Robert Graves
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