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Cambridge academic says he would not tolerate Jamaican neighbours

                   
telegraph.co.uk
31-Aug-2008
        
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A Cambridge academic and novelist was at the centre of a race row after saying that he would not be able to tolerate living next door to Jamaican neighbours "playing reggae all day". By Aislinn Simpson and Jessica Salter George Steiner, 79, said he believed racism was inherent in everyone and that racial tolerance was merely skin deep. The playwright and critic Bonnie Greer labelled him a "cranky old man", while... [read full story]                    

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George Steiner walks into race row

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Lindsay Johns: George Steiner is out of touch, but we shouldn't let his ill-judged comments about...

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03-Sep-2008
        

Author of highly acclaimed works of painfully intelligent literary criticism such as After Babel, The Death of Tragedy and Lessons of the Masters, George Steiner is a renaissance man with a brain the size of Texas. Or...

                   

George Steiner walks into race row

thefirstpost.co.uk
01-Sep-2008
        

George Steiner (pictured), the revered academic and novelist, has placed himself at the centre of a race row after saying that he would not be able to tolerate living next door to Jamaican neighbours "playing reggae all...

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