Word: portralt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...portralt of Cowperwood as a typical "Robber Baron" partly fails, according to Matthiessen, as a result of the same flaw in the writer's attitude which Paul Elmer More later stiffly denied as "an oscillation between a theory of evolution which sees no progress save the survival of the rapaciously strong and a humanitarian feeling of solidarity with the masses who are exploited in the process...
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