Word: sandlots
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Dates: during 1922-1922
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...nation to the temporary piling up of events during a war. Look at a history of Norman England written in the present style. The Battle of Crecy is laid out, a decisive battle, to be sure, but as bare of any imagination stimulating incident as a scrimmage between two sandlot football team. The picturesque is gone; there is nothing of the blind king of Bohemia charging into battle among his knight, or the stand of the English archers against wave after wave of the French chivalry. All of this is unessential from the modernist point of view. The student will...