Freudian slip?—or excess of candor? Which is it, for example, when your companion at dinner tells you, as mine did the other night, “I never had a peaceful moment—not one— the first twenty years of my wife?” And which is it when a New Republic editor uses as a subtitle for an article called “Religion at Harvard” the question: “To what values, if any, should a free university be committed in a world split by rival doctrines?”
As for myself, I’d guess excess of candor in the first case; and “Freudian slip” in the second.
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