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He ignites Brain Opera with a sequence of chopping hand motions and vigorous leanings in his chair (picture the Enterprise under attack); this brings forth a sonic crash from the computer.
Twenty-five years ago, the French scholar René Etiemble launched his now classic Parlez-vous franglais ? It was the cri de coeur of a single-minded patriot beset by the idea that the purity of his mother tongue was being corrupted by the Anglo-maniac leanings of his countrymen.
Eleanor (like all do-gooders motivated by the perilous business of noblesse oblige) might have had her authoritarian leanings, but the point is that FDR wasn't a dictator, and neither was Eleanor, who--whatever she may have mused aloud at the start of the New Deal--never got half the loaf she wanted.
Given his leftist leanings, it was inevitable that Wilkins would become involved in the pacifist movement in Cambridge, with its close connection to the Communist Party.
While he denies that he has ever been observant, Avedon confesses to vague spiritual leanings.