The clamor of agreement betrayed the anti-French sentiment … - Mary McCarthy

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The clamor of agreement betrayed the anti-French sentiment ever ready to be mobilized when Americans in Paris got together. And as happened with anti-Semites merrily fraternizing, nobody at the table seemed to remember that there were French people present.

Mary McCarthy

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Mary Therese McCarthy (21 June 1912 – 25 October 1989) was an American author and critic.

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