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Fallen heroes.(Books)(Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts)(Book review)
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Commonweal
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November 23, 2007| Author:
Lakeland, Paul
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Cultural Amnesia
Necessary Memories from History and the Arts
Clive James
Norton, $35, 768 pp.
Somewhere in the ether of critic Clive James's imagination is a dowdy mitteleuropaisches coffeehouse where the shades of twentieth-century Western humanism congregate. Mostly French or Jewish, overwhelmingly white and male, battered but not defeated by the trahison des clercs, their conversation continues to be about the classics, the role of ...
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