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To the Editors of The Crimson:
Gregory Lawless writes in his review (March 8) of this year's Hasty Pudding show, "Tots in Tinseltown," that the only line he remembered as being offensive comes "in 'Feel Free to Take Liberties,' when Preston Folded invites Third World refugees to come to the United States because 'I can't refuse your refuse.'"
The source for this line is the following poem:
Give me your tired, your poor,
your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me.
I lift my lamp beside the golden door.
It is engraved at the bottom of the Statue of Liberty. Richard W. Palmer, Jr.
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