Word: soiling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cows, Vodka, Acres, Potatoes, Soil, Love, Hate...
...Significance. This first part of St. Reymont's epic of the soil is "a panorama of the whole round of peasant life, a brilliant picture of Polish nature ... the tragic sense of the elemental forces which dominate the efforts of the tillers of the soil." The work is truly epic in its scope, a carefully worked, heroic pattern. It is a sweeping view of Poland, ground under the imperial heel of Russia...
...great cathedral: "War cannot go until the sweatshop goes. War cannot go until the opium dens and bucketshops go; war cannot go until the fevered cruelty of much business competition goes . . . until churches learn to tolerate each other without jealous rivalry. . . . The seed of war lies in the soil of the soul...
Prosaic matters such as bullets do still enter into consideration, just as forcefully as they impress themselves upon the soldier; still, the romance of war is redeemed by the paltry value of the arid soil the Spanish and Moroccans are fighting over. This is no bating-match between rival nationalities; it is rather a jousting time for lumbering knights-errant...
...request for independence, said he, "had been refused without proof or justification." He exhorted the Egyptians to remain faithful to "complete independence for Egypt and the Sudan." "We will never admit," he concluded, "nor will those who come after us, that a single foreign soldier shall remain on Egyptian soil...