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... left - wing intel- ligentsia , itself a kind of growth that had sprouted from the stagnation of the Empire . It should be noted that there is now no intelligentsia that is not in some sense ' left ' . Perhaps the last right - wing ...
... left - wing intel- ligentsia , itself a kind of growth that had sprouted from the stagnation of the Empire . It should be noted that there is now no intelligentsia that is not in some sense ' left ' . Perhaps the last right - wing ...
Page 63
... left - wing political parties . The mentality of the English left - wing intelligentsia can be studied in half a dozen weekly and monthly papers . The immediately striking thing about all these papers is their gen- erally negative ...
... left - wing political parties . The mentality of the English left - wing intelligentsia can be studied in half a dozen weekly and monthly papers . The immediately striking thing about all these papers is their gen- erally negative ...
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... left - wing circles it is always felt that there is something slightly disgraceful in being an Eng- lishman and that ... left - wingers were chipping away at English morale , trying to spread an outlook that was sometimes squashily ...
... left - wing circles it is always felt that there is something slightly disgraceful in being an Eng- lishman and that ... left - wingers were chipping away at English morale , trying to spread an outlook that was sometimes squashily ...
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