Injury Time: A MemoirPimlico, 2003 - 183 Seiten D.J. Enright died soon after putting the finishing touches to this memoir and commonplace book in which he muses upon his own condition and that of the world he knows he is leaving. With humanity and wit, he contemplates literature, manners, morals, people and the English language. |
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... Culture used to be figures of fun or of fear , known for their bumbling pronouncements or their close association with the secret police . Nowadays they are as respectable as other Ministers , neither made sport of nor trembled at ...
... Culture used to be figures of fun or of fear , known for their bumbling pronouncements or their close association with the secret police . Nowadays they are as respectable as other Ministers , neither made sport of nor trembled at ...
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... culture . ) But this is the nicest way of preserving an orderly , compliant , industrious and highly prosperous little country : a mild , bearable , ever - present fearfulness . Happy the land that doesn't feel a need for heroes . Our ...
... culture . ) But this is the nicest way of preserving an orderly , compliant , industrious and highly prosperous little country : a mild , bearable , ever - present fearfulness . Happy the land that doesn't feel a need for heroes . Our ...
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... culture , 157 , 161 ; ministers of , 2 , 87 , 122 ; types of , 2-3 ; see also morals ; Zeitgeist Culture of Control : Crime and Social Order in Contemporary Society , The , 2 D. , Sister , of the Convent of the Holy Infant Jesus ...
... culture , 157 , 161 ; ministers of , 2 , 87 , 122 ; types of , 2-3 ; see also morals ; Zeitgeist Culture of Control : Crime and Social Order in Contemporary Society , The , 2 D. , Sister , of the Convent of the Holy Infant Jesus ...
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