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Universal Dependencies - English - LinES
| Language | English |
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| Project | LinES |
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| Corpus Part | dev |
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| Annotation | Ahrenberg, Lars |
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But it did not give me the time of day.
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But it did not give me the time of day.
'But don't Americans know that Sadat was a Nazi?' the librarian says.
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'But don't Americans know that Sadat was a Nazi?' the librarian says.
Well, yes, well-informed people do have this information in their files.
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Well, yes, well-informed people do have this information in their files.
The New York Times is sure to have it, but the Times as I see it is a government within a government It has a state department of its own, and its high councils have probably decided that it would be impolitic at this moment to call attention to Sadat's admiration for Hitler.
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The New York Times is sure to have it, but the Times as I see it is a government within a government It has a state department of its own, and its high councils have probably decided that it would be impolitic at this moment to call attention to Sadat's admiration for Hitler.
I tell the lady that I have sent a copy of a eulogy of Hitler written by Sadat in 1953 to Sydney Gruson of the Times and also to Katharine Graham of The Washington Post.
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I tell the lady that I have sent a copy of a eulogy of Hitler written by Sadat in 1953 to Sydney Gruson of the Times and also to Katharine Graham of The Washington Post.
'Will they print it?' she asked.
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'Will they print it?' she asked.
'Difficult to guess,' I tell her.
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'Difficult to guess,' I tell her.
'The Times ought to be stronger in politics than it is in literature, but who knows.
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'The Times ought to be stronger in politics than it is in literature, but who knows.
Of course it must do financial news and sports well enough.
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Of course it must do financial news and sports well enough.
If it covered ball games as badly as it reviews books, the fans would storm it like the Bastille.
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If it covered ball games as badly as it reviews books, the fans would storm it like the Bastille.
Book readers evidently haven't got the passionate intensity of sports fans.'
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Book readers evidently haven't got the passionate intensity of sports fans.'
What disturbs is whether Americans understand the world at all, whether they are a match for the Russians the Sadats are in themselves comparatively unimportant.
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What disturbs is whether Americans understand the world at all, whether they are a match for the Russians the Sadats are in themselves comparatively unimportant.
To dissident Russian writers like Lev Navrozov, the Americans can never be a match for the Russians.
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To dissident Russian writers like Lev Navrozov, the Americans can never be a match for the Russians.
He quotes from Dostoevski's The House of the Dead a conversation between the writer and a brutal murderer, one of those criminals who fascinated him.
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He quotes from Dostoevski's The House of the Dead a conversation between the writer and a brutal murderer, one of those criminals who fascinated him.
I haven't the book handy, so I paraphrase.
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I haven't the book handy, so I paraphrase.
'Why are you so kind to me?' Dostoevski asks.
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'Why are you so kind to me?' Dostoevski asks.
And the murderer, speaking to one of the geniuses of the nineteenth century, answers, 'Because you are so simple that one can not help feeling sorry for you.'
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And the murderer, speaking to one of the geniuses of the nineteenth century, answers, 'Because you are so simple that one can not help feeling sorry for you.'
Even when he robbed Dostoevski, he pitied him as one might 'a little cherub-like child.'
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Even when he robbed Dostoevski, he pitied him as one might 'a little cherub-like child.'
Navrozov, exceedingly intelligent but, to a Westerner, curiously deformed (how could an independent intellectual in the Soviet Union escape deformity?), sees us, the Americans, as children at whom the Stalins smile through their mustachios.
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Navrozov, exceedingly intelligent but, to a Westerner, curiously deformed (how could an independent intellectual in the Soviet Union escape deformity?), sees us, the Americans, as children at whom the Stalins smile through their mustachios.
Perhaps there is a certain Vautrin-admiring romanticism in this.
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Perhaps there is a certain Vautrin-admiring romanticism in this.
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