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Wingate urged Fyvel to return to Great Britain for the war , to spread his doctrine of the overriding importance of war aims ... formed a small ' war aims ' committee , discussing who should say what in ' an important new series ' .
Wingate urged Fyvel to return to Great Britain for the war , to spread his doctrine of the overriding importance of war aims ... formed a small ' war aims ' committee , discussing who should say what in ' an important new series ' .
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If you had the kind of brain that could understand the poems of T. S. Eliot or the theories of Karl Marx , the higher - ups would see to it that you were kept out of any important job . The intellectuals could find a function for ...
If you had the kind of brain that could understand the poems of T. S. Eliot or the theories of Karl Marx , the higher - ups would see to it that you were kept out of any important job . The intellectuals could find a function for ...
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VI One of the most important developments in England during the past twenty years has been the upward and downward extension of the middle class . It has happened on such a scale as to make the old classification of society into ...
VI One of the most important developments in England during the past twenty years has been the upward and downward extension of the middle class . It has happened on such a scale as to make the old classification of society into ...
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User Review - the.ken.petersen - LibraryThingIt seems harsh to criticise George Orwell's optimism when he implies that socialism has become inevitable: he was writing in 1941, I thought so in 1980. Sadly, Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher and ... Read full review
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| Title | The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius A Penguin book : Polit. science Volume 6327 of Penguin Books Penguin twentieth-century classics |
| Author | George Orwell |
| Editor | Bernard R. Crick |
| Contributor | Bernard R. Crick |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Penguin Books, 1982 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 7 Sep 2010 |
| ISBN | 0140063277, 9780140063271 |
| Length | 123 pages |
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