Letters to The Times : ‘Dirty’ Words
For years I’ve wondered why it’s a dirty word to be a do-gooder, a bleeding heart or an intellectual.
Is it better to be a do-badder? Wasn’t Christ a bleeding heart? Doesn’t intellectual imply brains?
CORINNE C. WICKS
Downey
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