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To: Abner Hosmer who wrote (6181)5/1/1999 12:06:00 AM
From: Neocon  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 17770
 
Abner--- there really is a different sensibility, call it one of republican austerity, that affects even us "effete intellectual" types, as long as we were raised normally. I remember watching an interview with Francois Mitterand in the Presidential Palace, and being revolted at all the gilt and goo- gaws in his office. It seemed effeminate, ostentatious, and decadent. I knew then the extent to which being an American is "bred in the bone"...