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His intellectual bravado has always attracted disciples and acolytes, notably his cultlike following at Cambridge, where he taught in the 1930s and ’40s.

This is the case not only with Woolf, Joyce and Stein, but with Ezra Pound and his many disciples, who include T.S.

They both are afraid they’re going to get a challenge in their next reelect from a Marxist, a disciple of Mamdani… And so they cannot yield.

The first Sunday service after the arrests, streamed from pastors outside the mainland, included a meditation on the biblical account of Stephen, the first-century disciple stoned to death for his faith.

I suspect a lot of this is fed to him by his loyal disciples — and probably some not-so-loyal adversaries.

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