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"A Writer's Ten Commandments" Writers' Monthly (London, July 1985)"Commentary on a Poem" Horizon (London, October 1976)"Condemned World, Literary Kingdom" Times Saturday Review (London, Sept. 21, 1968)"Europe's Inner Demons" (London, March 2, 1975)"Good Faith and Bad" Sunday Telegraph (London, April 21, 1974)

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Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.

Stephen Vizinczey

Stephen Vizinczey (b. 1933), Hungarian novelist, critic. repr. In Truth and Lies in Literature (1986). "Europe's Inner Demons," (London, March 2, 1975).

Review of Norman Cohn's An Inquiry Inspired by the Great Witch-Hunt in Sunday Telegraph.

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