6/20/2023 0 Comments Treating Murder by Gabrielle Black![]() ![]() When they discover the affair, they lodge a complaint in court for corruption of a minor. The boy’s parents are both university professors. This society would have such a tight cultural unity that in every region and in all walks of life words and expressions would have the same meaning, the same resonance: a doctor in Oregon, an unemployed laborer in Buffalo, a librarian in Los Angeles, and a waitress in New York could respond in much the same way to “the child,” “the father,” “a teacher,” “the family,” “a divorced woman,” “an educated person,” and “authority.” Given this background, imagine that somewhere in the South a high-school teacher of thirty-one falls in love with one of her pupils, a boy of sixteen. First, every teacher and professor in the country, from kindergarten on through university, would be a federal employee, like the tax inspector or the postman, with a civil-service career controlled, observed, and directed from Washington. ![]() To translate the Gabrielle Russier case into American terms you would have to improvise a new society. If she had been a hairdresser, or if she had slept with a young apprentice, it would have been different. ![]()
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