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Minority Report
Hitchens, Christopher | April 10, 1989 issue

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It is informed that in a novel called "Left of Centre," which is now safely out of print, Paul Johnson wrote what is generally agreed to be the most embarrassing spanking scene ever penned. The eclipse of that otherwise unreadable novel did nothing to dim the memory of the cringe-making episode, which was continually recalled to mind by Johnson's public and social behavior. This often involved drunken and boorish conduct toward women, including his wife. On a famous occasion in a Greek restaurant in Charlotte Street in 1973, he struck her across the face for disagreeing with him in public.

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JOHNSON, Paul; INTERPERSONAL relations; CONDUCT of life; LEFT of Centre (Book); BEHAVIORAL assessment; ALCOHOLISM
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