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... believe Stalin , any more than one has to believe Ehrenburg . Yet , these paragraphs , with their quiet air , resembling a demonstration in geometry , are curiously persuasive . They are more than a promise ; they are a theoretical ...
... believe Stalin , any more than one has to believe Ehrenburg . Yet , these paragraphs , with their quiet air , resembling a demonstration in geometry , are curiously persuasive . They are more than a promise ; they are a theoretical ...
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... believe that a college course in Lunchroom Management or Clothing Selection is preferable to one in aesthetics or Greek history . I am not at all sure that the first two are the more practical . But I do not believe that any number of ...
... believe that a college course in Lunchroom Management or Clothing Selection is preferable to one in aesthetics or Greek history . I am not at all sure that the first two are the more practical . But I do not believe that any number of ...
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... believe that I shall find fair landscapes or sufficient wildness and freedom behind the eastern horizon . I am not excited by the prospect of a walk thither ; but I believe that the forest which I see in the western horizon stretches ...
... believe that I shall find fair landscapes or sufficient wildness and freedom behind the eastern horizon . I am not excited by the prospect of a walk thither ; but I believe that the forest which I see in the western horizon stretches ...
Contents
SPACE ARRANGEMENT The Battlefield of Waterloo | 7 |
COMPARISON AND CONTRAST True and False Humor | 13 |
ANALOGY The Stagecoach from Looking Backward Edward Bellamy | 19 |
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