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Francis Wheen

A word I just learned…

October 3, 2013Tom BarrettLeave a comment

… reading Francis Wheen:

epigone

“The economic experiment that Margaret Thatcher initiated in Britain a quarter century ago was later imposed on much of the world by her drooling epigones, and copied even by liberal and social democratic politicians.”

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A word I just learned…

January 29, 2013January 29, 2013Tom BarrettLeave a comment

… reading Francis Wheen:

corybantic

“The Lady Chatterley case ushered in the permissive Sixties; the Oz case looked like a last desperate attempt by mid-Victorian fogeys to stop that corybantic orgy.”

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