WHEN (AND WHERE) DR. SEUSS WAS VULGAR.
WHEN (AND WHERE) DR. SEUSS WAS VULGAR. I read with interest a review by Michael Saler in the Times Literary Supplement (September 24. 2010) which quoted a British appraisal of the works of Dr. Seuss from the early sixties. I was amused that the “Junior Bookshelf” had called his books “sometimes vulgar” and said that “…he seems madly common….” You almost never hear the words “common” or “vulgar” nowadays in any context, but back then there was concern for protecting children from things in bad taste.