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... politics , renounced his socialism ( as ' proved ' by Nineteen Eighty - Four ) , is pure myth , sometimes arising ... political thought as by no means typically liberal , but standing rather in a harsher , more realistic re- publican ...
... politics , renounced his socialism ( as ' proved ' by Nineteen Eighty - Four ) , is pure myth , sometimes arising ... political thought as by no means typically liberal , but standing rather in a harsher , more realistic re- publican ...
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... political writing into an art looking back through my work , I see that it is invariably where I lacked a political purpose that I wrote lifeless books and was betrayed into purple passages , sentences without meaning , decorative ...
... political writing into an art looking back through my work , I see that it is invariably where I lacked a political purpose that I wrote lifeless books and was betrayed into purple passages , sentences without meaning , decorative ...
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... political ignorance of people like airmen and naval officers will be a very great difficulty . But without those airmen , destroyer commanders , etc. etc. we could not survive for a week . The only approach to them is through their ...
... political ignorance of people like airmen and naval officers will be a very great difficulty . But without those airmen , destroyer commanders , etc. etc. we could not survive for a week . The only approach to them is through their ...
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