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It is no fault of the editors that familiarity breeds contempt: most of the references in this edition occurred within the living memory of many of its contemporaries, which leads one to argue with some of the material.
Anthony Burgess, in his Kingdom of the Wicked , remarks that Vespasian's own contemporaries designated street urinals as “vespasians,” certainly a much more ignominous affront because of its timeliness.
He denied having made the slips of the tongue that made him famous, and his contemporaries agreed that most legendary spoonerisms were invented by imaginative New College undergraduates.
To his contemporaries, however, such paintings as Child in a White Dress (Lucie Berard) (1883) and Girl With a Watering Can (1879; not in the show, but hanging in the National Gallery in Washington, D.C.) were alarming.
Kazan should be lauded for ratting on his contemporaries in the McCarthy hearings and has been vilified by "revived leftist fundamentalism."