> ...the "educated classes" everywhere are
> very easily embarrassed. They often have a somewhat precarious
> and anxiety-ridden grasp on gentility, and overvalue certain
> intellectual and behavioral shibboleths that mark their social
> distance from the Great Unwashed. And "educated classes" on the
> global periphery way overvalue the good opinion of their
> metropolitan counterparts.
>
> So the "embarrassment of the educated classes" doesn't
> weigh very heavily with me ...
> which just goes to show how shameless they really are, in
> spite of their pinky-in-the-air parlor manner.
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My, my. And this from someone who opts for "au-fait" rather than "familiar"
as in "Ahmadinejad is probably not very au-fait with the European history of
the last century"...
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