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elleng

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Thu Jul 20, 2017, 06:45 PM Jul 2017

Calvin Trillin By the Book:

The journalist likes the way H.L. Mencken expressed himself, for instance in his definition of Puritanism: “The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/20/books/review/calvin-trillin-by-the-book.html?

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