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| jacob, alaric | |
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After a mildly successful start as a Newspaper man in England , he was sent to America after the start of World War Two . He liked Roosevelt all right, but Americans in general he regarded with distaste as insufficiently civilized and the rise of American power displacing the British Empire in the world mortified him. On the whole, depressingly, he preferred his idea of what the USSR was to America. Nevertheless, the autobiography contains many amusing tidbits, such as his account of losing his virginity to a bored married woman who invited him to her house to commit the act, but pulled him down the hall to a small guest bed at the last minute out of repugnance to enjoying him in the same bed where she slept with her husband; some philosophical reflections on how easy it is for an Englishman with the right accent to seduce American girls, especially since, he writes, American men tend to treat their women like chums and equals, whereas Englishmen know that women like to be treated like women. It appears that Americans had lots and lots of telephones in the 1940's and used their proliferation to play status games which annoyed Jacob. |
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