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It would be "nothing new" but, rather, a "surfacing of old prejudices, hostilities and ambivalences that have always been there".
It would be an exaggeration to say people are happier now that we have less money, but accurate to say there's a surfacing of shame about the extent of our spend-spend-spend excesses.
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Take a surface of glass.
"Imagine a surface of no color whatsoever," he said.
Rather, it has a surface of concrete that covers an interior structure of rock and earth.
It was built between 1929 and 1931, and offered a surface of 25,000m² over six levels.
It is one of a number of floor pieces, and objects sit on a surface of corrugated tin.
"You can see a surface of beautifully packed together melanosomes," said Richard Prum, a Yale expert on feather colors.
And like Fitzgerald, Hamid probes the vulgarity and violence that lurk beneath a surface of affluence and ease.
It has a surface of curved grooves, carved with microscopic precision, into which the fingers nestle firmly.
Several African countries are endowed with lakes, some very large, that occupy a surface of more than 150,000 square kilometres.
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