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The first three pronouns ("help them," "their weaknesses," "lead them") all plainly refer to the "new intellectual cadres."But after that, the reader enters upon the "dangerous wilderness" to which Professor Barzun refers 去书内
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    The first three pronouns ("help them," "their weaknesses," "lead them") all plainly refer to the "new intellectual cadres."But after that, the reader enters upon the "dangerous wilderness" to which Professor Barzun refers. -"Their" (in "their knowledge and ability") is powerfully drawn to the nearby "Veterans," which is the subject of the sentence, but actually it refers again to the new cadres. -The next "they" ("they should not put on airs") now does mean the veterans, but could just as logically mean the new cadres. -In the last sentence ("They should learn from them"), "they" again represents the veterans, while "them" represents the new cadres, although the reverse reading would be equally plausible. -To straighten out this tangle, the polisher first replaced "their knowledge and ability" with "the new cadres' knowledge and ability."

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