Word: rawness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shrewd Gallic eyes, Alexis de Tocqueville observed that Americans tended in their attitude toward the arts to "put the real in place of the ideal." That has always been true of the interior of the White House. First occupied in 1800, when the nation was still in its raw infancy, when Washington, D.C., was a muddy village with a few thousand inhabitants, the White House has, through the changing decades, served its practical functions as residence and office for the President. What was neglected was the ideal: the White House as a monument, as a symbol of the nation...
...persuades) that physical cruelty is a pure manifestation of evil. As a temporarily absolved prisoner, De Montbrun is forced to watch the Inquisition's heretic burnings in Toulouse. Through the swirling clouds of smoke, De Montbrun sees "the bloody contorted bodies writhing like snakes on poles-the raw heads, the faces blistered and bursting, and still screaming. It was ugly; never had human faces been so ugly...
Industrial production has fallen 40% in three months and urban unemployment has soared. The few remaining private companies are clamoring for nationalization, hoping to get a better break on raw material allocations and some protection against strikes. Because there are too few trained administrators to run any more enterprises, Ne Win last week was forced to refuse all future nationalization petitions. Although in the past the government encouraged workers to strike against private employers-in state-run businesses, strikes are considered unpatriotic-Ne Win last week urged labor to moderate its wage demands, in a belated attempt to pacify businessmen...
...Chinese used the only surplus raw material at their command: people...
Henry V reigns both legally and exemplarily as Shakespeare presents him. We cannot condone today all that Henry does, nor approve the raw deal that Shakespeare gave the French. But we must try to remember at all times that Henry V represents what the Elizabethan English idolized. This is not too hard to do, for Shakespeare's skill is good enough to win us over, at least temporarily, to his own sympathies...