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... Snow himself as a literary figure one is struck by the immense disparity between what he says and what he does . In fact Snow's belief in the humanistic , melioristic , progressive qualities of scientific culture has become blended in ...
... Snow himself as a literary figure one is struck by the immense disparity between what he says and what he does . In fact Snow's belief in the humanistic , melioristic , progressive qualities of scientific culture has become blended in ...
Page 138
... Snow to ruin and the Marshalsea . One of the barristers said , ' Let it pass , Snow . ' And the BBC official said , ' You'd be a fool to take him up . ' For it was not as if Mr Snow were a literary man - he was a scientist , a physicist ...
... Snow to ruin and the Marshalsea . One of the barristers said , ' Let it pass , Snow . ' And the BBC official said , ' You'd be a fool to take him up . ' For it was not as if Mr Snow were a literary man - he was a scientist , a physicist ...
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... Snow has tried to do something to give them their due . But in practice Strangers and Brothers shows that whatever practical virtues the Wilcoxes may possess they lack the sensibility to inform a long work of fiction . In his stress on ...
... Snow has tried to do something to give them their due . But in practice Strangers and Brothers shows that whatever practical virtues the Wilcoxes may possess they lack the sensibility to inform a long work of fiction . In his stress on ...
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