Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Found in Perry's Cambridge rooms at the time of his arrest were 40 books, six of which had been taken from University libraries. Police also discovered covers and opening leaves of "Cadenus and Vanesa," a 1726 work of Dean Jonathan Swift, known to have been taken from Houghton Library...
Perry's Widener stack pass was revoked last year, and he never received permission to use Houghton. Official at Houghton stated yesterday that the stolen Swift volume was a small one, and that Perry might have picked it up during an attempt to sell books and documents to the library...
Week after week, month after month, three young Italian prospectors methodically paddled up & down the swift tributaries of the Caroní River. Their leader, a geologist, was convinced that diamonds were to be found where the streams cut through the jungle-swathed sandstone edges of the Gran Sabana plateaus along Venezuela's remote Brazilian frontier...
Some days it was the little, everyday things that crept up and overwhelmed a man with thoughts of life's swift pace and inexorable end. Harry Truman had one day like that last week...
...wrote it. But Orwell's mind had never been more lucid. Nineteen Eighty-Four is the grimmest, the most logically imagined and credible preview of the totalitarian state in print.* It is not so much a satire as a portent. The 18th Century's great Dean Swift, whom Orwell admired and to whom he has been compared, is at best a distant literary cousin. Gulliver's Travels discursively, and sometimes vindictively, pilloried comparatively commonplace human failings. Orwell projected with terrible urgency the final shape of a modern, and unique, political drift...