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Unpleasant thoughts about Harold Pinter

December 27, 2008 - 8:43 am - by Roger Kimball
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2008-12-31 03:54:32

Sorry Gaffe Prices, but what is it about Americans that they think they gave the world free speech? Their faulty education system? Pinter lived in a country that had free speech before USA even existed.
His political views are irrelevant to his dramatic work, just as Picasso’s communism is irrelevant to his art.