Word: crude
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...debris: leather-bound ledgers recording 700 years of the Abbey's life; stuffed birds and animals from its zoological collection; the molten pipes of its great 17th Century organ, contorted into weird sausage shapes; rusting German machine guns with ammunition belts still attached. On the dark walls are crude sketches of female figures traced by homesick German soldiers, and a Rhenish landscape with the caption Oh, du wun-derschöner Deutscher Rhein (Oh, you beautiful German Rhine...
...Crude to our ears, perhaps. A Stone-Age implement. But beautifully accurate gamesmanship for 1931 ... Smith (at Point K) stopped dead...
...rose Britain's lean, aging (76) Philosopher-Mathematician Bertrand Russell. "When you go back to Prague," he rasped, "tell your employers that the next time we have an international congress of philosophy we'd prefer that they send someone not so crude." Looking like an indignant owl, New York University's Sidney Hook turned his brisk Brooklyn accent against Kolman: "You talk about economic democracy [in Russia]. You mean economic equality. But there is an equality in freedom and equality in slavery...
...Crude oil and other petroleum products make up 75% of the river's cargo. Most of it is upriver, and the oil barges return empty; rivermen are now talking of building oil barges with return-trip deck space for autos. The rest of the traffic is in other bulk products which do not have to be moved rapidly. Downriver, Pittsburgh and Chicago ship steel, the Twin Cities grain. Upriver come cotton, sulphur and scrap from the South, coffee and sisal from Latin America...
...with the mob, is a central theme in much of Huxley's writing, and it spills all over his latest novel. But where Brave New World was a neat stiletto jab into the tender hide of the reforming perfectionists, Ape and Essence, a poorer novel, is a rather crude bludgeon indiscriminately aimed at all men's thick skulls...