Word: distantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bruce Lane, the first speaker for the affirmative in the debate against Gettysburg, predicted that there will be a depression in the not too distant future, and added that nationalization is the only way to prevent it. His partner Helmut Furth, stressed the fact that the country's natural resources are in a state of decline and that the monopolies are wasting these resources...
...five-layer cushion of psychological defenses had protected the old sergeants-and presumably all soldiers who survived long stretches of combat in good mental health -from caving in. As the layers were peeled away, normal combat anxiety eventually turned into psychoneurosis and the old sergeant became a casualty: ¶ "Distant ideals"-a reliance on such intangibles as "the four freedoms," democracy, and the desire for "keeping the enemy out of the United States"-were the first to dissolve...
...Women's Association, the Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic, the National Association of Colored Women. Miss Paul and her cohorts rapped on Senate doors, buttonholed Senators. Their weapons were whatever came to hand-documents, dialectics, plain talk and implied political threats. Some, like Ernestine Bellamy, distant relative of Edward (Looking Backward) Bellamy, splendidly flashed the most invincible feminine weapon...
Gorer suggests that this and other Brit' ish traits need psychological study. Then, with the eyes of his countrymen upon him, Gorer bows hurriedly out of the room. Says he: "I hope that this work will be undertaken in the not too distant future...
...Four is the grimmest, the most logically imagined and credible preview of the totalitarian state in print.* It is not so much a satire as a portent. The 18th Century's great Dean Swift, whom Orwell admired and to whom he has been compared, is at best a distant literary cousin. Gulliver's Travels discursively, and sometimes vindictively, pilloried comparatively commonplace human failings. Orwell projected with terrible urgency the final shape of a modern, and unique, political drift...