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Larger context for LACK in Corpus USbrown_UKbncw/US_brown.txt
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Both shudder at the thought of proceeding too far beyond the sewage system and the electric light lines. The commercial propagandist, who can't afford to be critical, gets along well with the amateur, from whom he feeds, but he frequently steps on the analyst's toes by refusing to keep his material genuine. His standards are, of course, completely foreign to those of the analyst.   To both the amateur and the commercial progandist the analyst lacks a soul, lacks appreciation with his endless probings and classifications.   Dominated by the vicious circle of the university promotion system, the analyst looks down on and gets along poorly with the other three groups, although he cannot deny his debt to the collector. The knowledge that most Americans have of folklore comes through contact with commercial propagandists and a few energetic amateurs and collectors. The work done by the analysts, the men who really know what folklore is all