Reader Response

August, 1990

Humorist Garrison Keillor, speaking in defense of the National Endowment for the Arts before the Senate Subcommittee on Education, Arts and Humanities."My ancestors were Puritans from England. They arrived here in 1648 in the hope of finding greater restrictions than were permissible under English law at that time. But over the years, we Puritans have learned something about repression, and it's as true today as when my people arrived: Man's interest in the forbidden is sharp and constant.&...