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... contemporary American culture . The drummers in this selling process are those New Yorkers who offer hospitality , if only sumptuous lunches and dinners ( ideally on a corporate expense account ) , to visiting dignitaries whose favor is ...
... contemporary American culture . The drummers in this selling process are those New Yorkers who offer hospitality , if only sumptuous lunches and dinners ( ideally on a corporate expense account ) , to visiting dignitaries whose favor is ...
Page 219
... contemporary trades of systems analysis and computer programming . By the seventies , intellectually conservative attempts to sustain the heritage of Marx - Freud generally define an intermediary chan- nel as semi - literate , incapable ...
... contemporary trades of systems analysis and computer programming . By the seventies , intellectually conservative attempts to sustain the heritage of Marx - Freud generally define an intermediary chan- nel as semi - literate , incapable ...
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... contemporary intellectual sins , representing in sum a betrayal of intelligence ; for if " liberal education " is designed to open the mind , " philis- tinism " by definition advocates and exemplifies smugly conven- tional modes of ...
... contemporary intellectual sins , representing in sum a betrayal of intelligence ; for if " liberal education " is designed to open the mind , " philis- tinism " by definition advocates and exemplifies smugly conven- tional modes of ...
Contents
Locating American Literary Establishments | 3 |
The Dynamics of Literary Politicking | 17 |
The New York Literary Mob | 39 |
Copyright | |
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