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... attitude ? It is more complex and ambiguous than may at first appear . Fundamental to his public attitude has been his faith in the holiness of the heart's affections and in personal relations , rational discourse and disinterestedness ...
... attitude ? It is more complex and ambiguous than may at first appear . Fundamental to his public attitude has been his faith in the holiness of the heart's affections and in personal relations , rational discourse and disinterestedness ...
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... attitudes . Reviewing the book when it was published , I described this common attitude as follows : A new hero has arisen among us . Is he the intellectual tough , or the tough intellectual ? He is consciously , even conscien- tiously ...
... attitudes . Reviewing the book when it was published , I described this common attitude as follows : A new hero has arisen among us . Is he the intellectual tough , or the tough intellectual ? He is consciously , even conscien- tiously ...
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... attitude towards initiation is ambiguous , at least Huck intervenes in the activities of the adult world and makes deliberate moral choices , for all that at the end he seems to repudiate the adult world . In The Catcher , however , the ...
... attitude towards initiation is ambiguous , at least Huck intervenes in the activities of the adult world and makes deliberate moral choices , for all that at the end he seems to repudiate the adult world . In The Catcher , however , the ...
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