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... original abstention from experiment strikes me as having been both comprehensible and rewarding . ( 1968 : p . 26 ) One could go on multiplying examples of this opposition , though they are seldom so sharply explicit . If American ...
... original abstention from experiment strikes me as having been both comprehensible and rewarding . ( 1968 : p . 26 ) One could go on multiplying examples of this opposition , though they are seldom so sharply explicit . If American ...
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... original form of Pop Art ) . Yet the cost has been high : in the hands of these writers the novel has increasingly aban- doned richness for ingenuity , and has taken on a brittle , deliberately flat quality , where most of the ...
... original form of Pop Art ) . Yet the cost has been high : in the hands of these writers the novel has increasingly aban- doned richness for ingenuity , and has taken on a brittle , deliberately flat quality , where most of the ...
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... original and interesting writer , and who seems to me to have a good deal more to offer than Herlihy or Bowles , and certainly than Miss Bingham , who is very competent , but who relies heavily on the short - story formula to compensate ...
... original and interesting writer , and who seems to me to have a good deal more to offer than Herlihy or Bowles , and certainly than Miss Bingham , who is very competent , but who relies heavily on the short - story formula to compensate ...
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Preface 74 | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
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