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RBF Definitions
"going to give up those kinds of expressions. I had not grown up with such language, but when I came to have my first job in New York, the second time I was kicked out of Harvard, I found that all the workmen there thought that I was probably a homosexual because I spoke the language I had learned at Milton Academy and Harvard and it sounded so absolutely different from their language which was 50 percent obscene or plasphemous, that I sounded so queer to them that they thought I was a sexual pervert or something. I was sure I wasn’t, but the only way I could convince them, I couldn’t teach them my language, and I got pretty good at the horrible cursing and blasphemy, so that it was… in there from way back before World War I, so I am talking about 65 years ago.
"So in 1927, 50 years ago, I said I’m never going to use any of that blasphemy ever again.
“I will be driving in my car and suddenly someone will hm come out of a side road very dangerously and I will say ‘son of a bitch!’ and I am so absolutely shocked I will say ‘Jesus Christ’ that this could come out of me. I want to emphasize to you psychiatrists how very deep these things”
