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autotelic

Autotelic education requires, in her view, a radical transformation of our cultural institutions, social expectations, and economic lives.

—p.16 A Little Potboiler (1) by Lee Konstantinou
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palaver

a delegation of American writers sent to the Soviet Union for one of their literary palavers

—p.133 Russian Portraits (127) missing author
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somnambular

It's quite clear that there are degrees of somnambular at-homeness (the fashionable word in Cambridge now is inwardness) which I will never attain

—p.97 The Art of Criticism No. 2 (42) by George Steiner
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Manichaeism

This is a very peculiar form of heresy. It's a form of Manichaeanism. And I call myself a Manichaean, a rather baffled Manichaean

—p.60 The Art of Criticism No. 2 (42) by George Steiner
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apodictic

his words cut through me at that time: the authority of that man, the charisma, the apodictic contempt in that statement. So I accepted.

—p.70 The Art of Criticism No. 2 (42) by George Steiner
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