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About This Document: [Dexter] does let it be known that he feels a decided repugnance toward homosexuality, the practitioners of which, he announces, exhibit "a political contamination that can, in every case, be traced to Moscow." A young Englishman called Hughie, who dreams of a House of Commons career, interposes at this point: "I say, hold on, Heck. All the old queens I know are terrific old Tories." (But in the very year The Blessing was published, Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean defected.) From such perversion, Dexter assures Hughie, America has been saved: "We have no pederasts." (This is not Grace's impression of the American expatriates she has met.)[Nancy Mitford] does not tell us what Dexter actually says about Britain during the past 50 years, except that - as could be expected from history's first full neocon - the word "vision" occurs a lot. Dexter has completely internalized the profound dogma "Never let a crisis go to waste." Not content with revealing or, as he would perhaps put it, "explicating" the problem, he has a solution.Yet even in extremis she could think of others' sufferings before her own. News of Third World disasters preyed on her mind. "I'm tortured by the thought of Bangladesh," she once told her servant. "Some woman in quite as much pain as I am and no bidet." The servant retorted crossly: "They're used to it." On which Mitford reflected: "Whether the pain or the bidetlessness I couldn't make out."

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Tags: American Conservative, Aug 2011, Lady Clairvoyant, Stove, R J, Commentary, Novels, Neoconservatism, Writers, United States--US, Mitford, Nancy

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