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Several dukes , earls and what - not were killed in the recent campaign in
Flanders . That could not happen if these people were the cynical scoundrels that
they are sometimes declared to be . It is important not to misunderstand their
motives ...
Several dukes , earls and what - not were killed in the recent campaign in
Flanders . That could not happen if these people were the cynical scoundrels that
they are sometimes declared to be . It is important not to misunderstand their
motives ...
Page 47
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 themselves only in
the ...
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 themselves only in
the ...
Page 48
And underlying this is the really important fact about so many of the English
intelligentsia — their severance from the common culture of the country . In
intention , at any rate , the English intelligentsia are Europeanized . They take
their cookery ...
And underlying this is the really important fact about so many of the English
intelligentsia — their severance from the common culture of the country . In
intention , at any rate , the English intelligentsia are Europeanized . They take
their cookery ...
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