"The official world, the corridors of power."
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Homecomings (1956), ch. 22
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C. P. Snow
Charles Percy Snow, Baron Snow of Leicester CBE (5 October 1905 – 1 July 1980) was an English novelist, scientific administrator, civil servant, and literary critic.
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