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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Miss Drew's School for Girls are delivered and fetched by governesses; Meg comes clattering up on roller skates, a tense, skinny gamin who wears a big hunting knife and dreams of being suckled by a lioness. When a furtive little man makes advances toward her in an automat one day, she goes right on eating her raisin bun, looks him square in the eye and asks: "Are you a pervert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Not So Innocent | 3/13/1950 | See Source »

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