Word: inferior
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...always, Desaulniers displayed an appropriate mixture of spirit and reserve as he humbled another inferior opponent...
...early twentieth century intellectuals." In doing so, he skips such intellectuals as T.S. Eliot, Erich Remarque and American expatriates like Ezra Pound and Ernest Hemingway, who had both a political and intellectual vision. The negligence of Eliot is particularly blatant, especially in contrast to Wohl's paeons to the inferior poetry of Brooke and Sassoon...
Wohl's book offers no insights, only frustrations. Occasional insightful analyses of the ideas of intelligent men are buried in philanderings over inferior thinkers. These analyses are further dimmed by a lack of any type of social or historical perspective. Wohl's entire premise is wrong, for the myth he tries to rescue the generation from is, in fact, the true intellectual portrait of the Generation...