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Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 21:24:10 -0400
From: Andrew Brown <as-brown@comcast.net>
Reply-To: Andrew Brown <as-brown@comcast.net>
Subject: Re: Re: FW: Respons to Steve Mintz "The Golden Age of Childhood?"
To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum
Any chance that we could get a copy of the editorial Steven Mintz has written?
I've tried to locate it through CSM and related links unsuccessfully. I'm on
fire with curiosity.
AB
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From: Donald B. Johnson
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Sent: Friday, April 29, 2005 10:29 AM
Subject: Re: FW: Respons to Steve Mintz "The Golden Age of Childhood?"
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Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 08:51:55 EDT
From: STADLEN@aol.com
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Subject: Re: FW: Respons to Steve Mintz "The Golden Age of Childhood?"
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In a message dated 29/04/2005 13:05:59 GMT Standard Time,
chtodel@gss.ucsb.edu writes:
> Dear Colleagues,
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> This is the letter I wrote today to the Christian Science Monitor, in
> response to S. Mintz?s editorial.
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> Humble regards,
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> David Powelstock
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> From: David Powelstock [mailto:pstock@brandeis.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 10:28 PM
> To: 'letters@thenewstribune.com'
> Subject: Steve Mintz "The Golden Age of Childhood?"
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> To the Editor,
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> I applaud Steven Mintz?s demystification of our era?s romanticization of
> the 1950s, an era of appalling hypocrisy. But am stunned, utterly stunned
that
> a respected professor of history could have so profoundly misrepresented?or
> misread?Vladimir Nabokov?s novel, Lolita. To suggest that this novel, a
> masterpiece of such subtle and powerful moral impact was in any way
complicit
in
> the reprehensible commercializing eroticization of children that it so
> persuasively indicts is obscene. It borders on the farcical that Professor
Mintz
> should adduce to his putatively moral ends this novel, the first and perhaps
> the most eloquent critique of the growing appropriation of defenseless
> childhood to the corrupt and selfish ends of adults. I wonder if Prof.
Mintz
has
> even read Lolita. Nabokov?s masterpiece is not symptomatic, but if anything
> diagnostic of the 1950s.
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> Sincerely,
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> David Powelstock
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Excellent letter.
Anthony Stadlen
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In a message dated 29/04/2005 13:05:59 GMT Standard Time, chtodel@gss.ucsb.edu
writes:
Dear Colleagues,
This is the letter I wrote today to the Christian Science Monitor, in
response to S. Mintzâ?Ts editorial.
Humble regards,
David Powelstock
From: David Powelstock [mailto:pstock@brandeis.edu]
Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 10:28 PM
To: 'letters@thenewstribune.com'
Subject: Steve Mintz "The Golden Age of Childhood?"
To the Editor,
I applaud Steven Mintzâ?Ts demystification of our eraâ?Ts romanticization of
the 1950s, an era of appalling hypocrisy. But am stunned, utterly stunned that
a respected professor of history could have so profoundly misrepresentedâ?"or
misreadâ?"Vladimir Nabokovâ?Ts novel, Lolita. To suggest that this novel, a
masterpiece of such subtle and powerful moral impact was in any way complicit
in the reprehensible commercializing eroticization of children that it so
persuasively indicts is obscene. It borders on the farcical that Professor
Mintz should adduce to his putatively moral ends this novel, the first and
perhaps the most eloquent critique of the growing appropriation of defenseless
childhood to the corrupt and selfish ends of adults. I wonder if Prof. Mintz
has even read Lolita. Nabokovâ?Ts masterpiece is not symptomatic, but if
anything diagnostic of the 1950s.
Sincerely,
David Powelstock
Excellent letter.
Anthony Stadlen
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