Word: slagheap
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...governing the "lesser breeds without the Law,'' but when he took his bad conscience home, he was soon to find, in the unemployed of the Depression, the least of breeds within the law. The industrial North impressed him as the dark side of a lunar slagheap landscape on which Empire's sun had set. After Orwell turned to socialism - an Old-Etonian socialist who was prepared to be serious about it was a rare thing in those days -he was quickly tapped for great things in the world of left-wing propaganda. He went on his pilgrimage...
...result is a bewildering jumble of new forms and shapes-forged, soldered, puddled, riven and wrought-that can look as crude as slagheap clinkers, as ethereal as tomorrow's TV aerials or as menacing as the latest rocket launcher...
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