The Gutsmut Game

The Gutsmut GameI never thought I'd see the day when my lover's quarrel with American culture would lead me to quote Shirley Temple. Bugs Bunny, maybe, Marshall McLuhan or Mary Poppins, perhaps. But not Shirley Temple, whom McCall's magazine hailed last year as the "uniquely winsome little girl who dimpled and danced her way across the Depression-weary scene" of the Thirties.Probably because of some serious lack on my part, little Shirley's dimpling and dancing never brightened my Depr...