Word: saws
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Orwell first discovered that there is no genuinely non-political language when he went to Spain in 1936. "Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper, but in Spain, for the first time, I saw newspaper reports which did not bear any relation to the facts, not even the relationship which is implied in an ordinary lie.... This kind of thing is frightening to me, because it often gives me the feeling that the very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world...
...book didn't deal with these complexities. They were poorly known at the front where firewood, food, tobacco, candles, and the enemy were important, in that order. There, the majority of the casualties were accidentally self-inflicted. "If I remember rightly," Orwell wrote, "the first five men I saw wounded in Spain were all wounded by our own weapons." The pass-words were of such an elevating and revolutionary nature that the illiterate sentries usually forgot them and got shot at, escaping only thanks to the consistently poor aim of their comrades...
...greatest of them, Tung Yuan, shows in his Dragon Among the Country People the mighty forward leap taken by the Sung artists over their earlier T'ang models. Tung Yuan's eagle's-eye view depicts the mountains, lakes and plains that he saw in Kiangnan, laid out in one majestic sweep that reaches to the horizon. In its vastness, human figures are reduced to mere dots of color. To his contemporaries, and to generations after, such scenes appeared as "the very truth of Heaven...
...beginning itself, however, promised to be the fulfillment of a crusade for democracy at Harvard. The turn of the century saw Harvard wrestling with a two-fold problem: High school graduates and scholarship students lived in the economical Yard while the rich moved off to "Gold Coast" quarters on Massachusetts Avenue, and final and "waiting" clubs were forming, with clubhouses erected on Mount Auburn Street. Harvard College, both socially and physically, was splitting into two camps...
...Crimson beat Brandeis 27 to 8 in a three-ring circus that saw six pitchers, including a major portion of the Brandeis outfield, parade across the mound in a vain attempt to control a 20-hit Harvard attack which included four home runs, a triple, and three doubles. It was often entertaining. But with the fine Holy Cross game only a day in the past, one had trouble calling it baseball...