Word: barathrum
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Other Connolly faults are an occasional forcing of elegance, a weakness for the rare and classy word ("the barathrum of incompetence"), and a neglect which almost seems an aversion for U.S. literature. Connolly's insularity is profound and perhaps defensive. It is, however, an insularity of European rather than British dimensions. One of the curves that could be plotted through his writing culminates in his stated belief that the future cultural relationship between England and France should be "absolute union...
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