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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 ...
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 ...
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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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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 .
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 .
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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 Issue 1 of Searchlight books |
| Author | George Orwell |
| Publisher | Secker & Warburg, 1941 |
| Length | 126 pages |
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