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Meltrg Posted 13 years ago
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What do " narrow but generous prejudices" mean exactly?
"Goldman with her organizing flair and practical disposition, her narrow but generous prejudices, and her self-importance, typical of American women devoted to social work." - Victor Serge in <Memoir of a revolutionary>
I got what he meant, but not clearly.
Do "narrow but generous prejudices" mean that she has a little prejudices and still deals with them with generosity
or that she is generous but has strong bias?
Thanks in advance.
I got what he meant, but not clearly.
Do "narrow but generous prejudices" mean that she has a little prejudices and still deals with them with generosity
or that she is generous but has strong bias?
Thanks in advance.
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meltrg narrow but generous prejudices This is difficult to decipher, but my impression is that she has few (= narrow) prejudices, but they are strong (= generous) ones.
- meltrg narrow but generous prejudices This is difficult to decipher, but my impression is that she has few (= narrow) prejudices, but they are strong (= generous) ones.
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meltrgnarrow but generous prejudicesThis is difficult to decipher, but my impression is that she has few (= narrow) prejudices, but they are strong (= generous) ones.
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