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Some of Plath's feminist defenders say Hughes' "lax and digressive" verses "serve mostly to remind us of what a great poet she was" (Katha Pollitt, the New York Times Book Review ). Hughes' defenders use the occasion to restate their case against Plath's greatness: Her poetry was humorless and hyperbolic and would not be remembered had she not committed suicide.
The party where humorless thought police work to enforce a rigid ideological discipline isn't made up of Democrats.
I do suspect (you imply that you do, too) that the boomer parents who so gleefully force-feed their kids lesson-heavy, humorless, politically correct books seize upon the Potter novels because they're so blessedly free of didacticism.
But what makes the unhappy discovery truly appalling is the further incredible discovery that Washington's earnest and humorless Rules are considered by experts to be the key to his entire career, and therefore, in some respect, a key to America's two centuries of national success.
Ensler's riotous work is said to refute the rap that feminists are humorless: "What it was like to see Lenny Bruce perform in the beginning" (Anita Gates, the New York Times ).