Word: trahison
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This is a hasty summary, and I have extrapolated where Lasch's occasionally disorganized remarks leave the reader guessing. But it should be seen that The New Radicalism in America is a work of derogation, something of a native La Trahison des Clercs-far subtler than the original, it should be noted, since the author has no overt interest in recriminations, but still committed to puncturing the American self-consciousness where it hurts. Mr. Lasch intelligently sidesteps the more frequently trodden paths: stories of the dispossessed who mooned in Europe with Harold Stearns, then returned to claim their inheritence with...
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