Word: ploughman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Icarus and Daedalus flew, "the ploughman stopped his work to gaze, and the shepherd leaned on his staff and watched them, astonished at the sight, and thinking they were gods who could thus cleave...
...same tome he called Mussolini an "OPPORTUNIST who is RIGHT," an "AWARE INTELLIGENCE," who was introducing "a new LANGUAGE in the debates in the chamber." He was according to Pound, a statesman of "deep 'concern' or will for the welfare of Italy," right down to "the last ploughman and the last girl in the oliveyards...." It seems that Pound wasn't aware of the irony, that the new language was, had been, totalitarianism, and the "sincere concern" was with the imprisonment of anarchists and other "dissidents" at that time, and would eventually extend to the internment and elimination of Jews...