Word: abyss
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Emma Goldman has turned her back on Russia and the Bolsheviks. "An abyss," she says, "separates the Russian people and the Bolshevik government." At almost the same moment comes word that the much heralded movement for University primary education has failed. Soviet Minister of Education Lunacharsky in a report to the Central Executive Committee bewails a general decline. Only one-third as many children receive instruction today as in the closing years of the Romanoff regime...
...enslavers of the Nation and give the Third Internationale the possibility to continue its destructive propaganda in Europe, Asia, Africa and America. The object of this propaganda is world upheaval-that is to say, the ruin of Christian civilization and the plunging of the entire earth into the dark abyss of barbarism, pauperism and serfdom to the advantage and satisfaction of only a small group of fanatics and a dissolute group of men who have lost honor and conscience, and hope to exploit this upheaval for the gratification of their cupidity and vicious appetites...
...funeral: "Jean, Millerand's son; the Unknown Soldier; Maman Canti [canti, name given to profiteering junk-dealers]; Mme. Vichère [composed of vie, life, chère, dear?high cost of living] ; l'Abbesse du Franc [Abbesse means abbess, but it is here a play on the English word abyss; hence, the abyss of the franc, an allusion to the franc's tremendous fall in the Spring (TIME, Mar. 17) when Millerand was President...
...cause of the disaster was not clear. The party were two weeks behind their schedule. The period of favorable weather was nearing its end. The time of violent monsoons was at hand. The North Col was encircled by ice cliffs that break off suddenly and plunge into the abyss. A gale or an avalanche? Failing lungs? Or freezing cold? The world waited breathless for the final word...
John Corbin: "A little of it is quite notably above the average in idea, and there are not more than two or three times that it sinks into the abyss of the commonplace...