Word: clanricard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...represents the finest traditions of 19th-Century liberalism, no longer feels at ease in talking with the "little set" he had reigned over before the war; too many of the newcomers are Comrades who talk dogmatic stereotypes which are the death of all free discussion. The gentle schoolmaster, Clanricard, sick at heart in his wife's betrayal of him, makes genteel love to a young Russian and gets the whole sexual dialectic thrown at his head; even so, he thinks: "If enthusiasm and integrity are still to be found in this world, it is in Moscow that they must...
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