Recently I have received echoes down this way of the Hanover County School Board's activities, and what I've heard makes me wonder if any of its members can read.
Surely it is plain to the simplest intelligence that To Kill a Mockingbird spells out in words of seldom more than two syllables a code of honor and conduct, Christian in its ethic, that is the heritage of all Southerners. To hear that the novel is "immoral" has made me count the years between now and 1984, for I have yet to come across a better example of doublethink.

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Recently I have received echoes down this way of the Hanover County School Board's activities, and what I've heard makes me wonder if any of its members can read.
Surely it is plain to the simplest intelligence that To Kill a Mockingbird spells out in words of seldom more than two syllables a code of honor and conduct, Christian in its ethic, that is the heritage of all Southerners. To hear that the novel is "immoral" has made me count the years between now and 1984, for I have yet to come across a better example of doublethink." in the context of "Letter to the editor of The Richmond News Leader (14 January 1966), in response to the Hanover County School Board's decision to ban her novel as "immoral literature"; as quoted in Mockingbird : A Portrait of Harper Lee (2007) by Charles J. Shields, p. 255" to mean that wisdom is timeless.