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Confiteor

last word (the only one in the sentence) of the essay

—p.68 God's Spies (61) by George Steiner
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vide

Mrs. Jimmy Carter (vide her attempt to rebut Solzhenitsyn's tirade at the Harvard commencement)

—p.58 De Profundis (54) by George Steiner
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hecatomb

the exactly contemporary hecatombs on the Western front

—p.56 De Profundis (54) by George Steiner
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renascence

The Hitler regime seemed to embody an awesome renascence of the German and Central European genius.

—p.50 Wien, Wien, Nur de Allein (47) by George Steiner
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pietistic

which led to naive pietistic grandiloquence

thought it had something to with piety but not sure what exactly

—p.49 Wien, Wien, Nur de Allein (47) by George Steiner
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