Touchy-Feely
September, 2012
I enjoyed Paul Krassner's commentary on that so-called horrible expletive fuck ("Reversals Galore," May). I was a court reporter in the early 1970s when Judge Charles Halleck of the D.C. Superior Court heard a case involving the word. It was fun to hang around Halleck's chambersbecause of his liberal attitude. He would kid his secretary, "Do you have the fuck decision finished yet?" She would usually reply, "If you didn't give me so much fucking work I could have the fu...
