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this young Jew of the French para-Marxist left came to make a series of approbatory comments on Hitler

Thomas Nevin gives only a summary sketch of this via dolorosa.

the truly great scholar becomes as one with his material, however abstruse, however, recondite

Like a dowser, he senses the significant deeps underneath the long-trodden surface.

He glimpses purloined letter where others stare at wallpaper.