At 15:14 2/4/2001 -0400, you wrote: >>Keegan is not very impressed with his writing ... > >Oh dear. No wonder he was writing for the "Daily Telegraph". This is almost >a paean to some supposed concept of English intellectual superiority. Give >me any number of "floundering" and "idealistic" German authors over their >"pragmatic" English counterparts any day! Yes, you wouldn't find Keegan in the 'Guardian'. But there's room for both 'idealism' and 'pragmatism' in presentday Europe, isn't there? For myself, as a pragmatic Englishman with idealistic leanings and no pretensions to imtellectual superiority over anyone, this is one of the things which makes the European project so worthwhile! Best wishes - Graham Galer.
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