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Page 101
... course , that they are doing no more than reflect what Podhoretz calls the ' incredible nature ' of American reality ; but if this is so , then it is done without comment and without apparent distancing , in ways that correspond to what ...
... course , that they are doing no more than reflect what Podhoretz calls the ' incredible nature ' of American reality ; but if this is so , then it is done without comment and without apparent distancing , in ways that correspond to what ...
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... course , an exceedingly detached narrator , most of whose energy goes into the continual fine adjustment of his responses : if he is more than the mere camera - eye of Isherwood's early stories , while being equally observant , he is ...
... course , an exceedingly detached narrator , most of whose energy goes into the continual fine adjustment of his responses : if he is more than the mere camera - eye of Isherwood's early stories , while being equally observant , he is ...
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... course , but finally the excesses of pro- Europeans like Blanshard - White are too much for him and he tries to escape from London , only to be thrown into a concentration camp , from which he is rescued , at the end of the novel , by ...
... course , but finally the excesses of pro- Europeans like Blanshard - White are too much for him and he tries to escape from London , only to be thrown into a concentration camp , from which he is rescued , at the end of the novel , by ...
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Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
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