Word: swine
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...overdo the horror of it. Surely it is more frightening when there are no actual horrors; what is terrifying is the unchanging routine year after year. The horror is forgetting that your life?the only life you have?is destroyed, is in your willingness to forgive even some ugly swine of a warder, is in being obsessed with grabbing a big hunk of bread in the prison mess or getting a decent set of underwear when they take you to the bathhouse...
...Chieh-sheng, daughter of famed Marshal Ho Lung by one of his early wives (he has been married nine times), achieved revolutionary fame by denouncing her father as a "despicable swine." She is now an important member of the cultural cadre, boasts that she is closer to Mao than to her own parents...
...better description was "mad dogs, who for the past 150 years have done the same thing, with even greater brutality, to the blacks." Improving on even this literary eloquence, Southern found the "dog-cop image quite apt, but in my view there is also a salient strain of swine in the character of those who drove the young people out of Lincoln Park. Swine, or perhaps the hated mandrill...
Woolf writes of the death of sweet reason that afflicted the Western world during and between the two world wars. The title of this book refers to the Gadarene swine in the Bible, who were possessed of evil spirits and, according to St. Luke, "ran violently down a steep place into the lake, and were choked." The swine, as Woolf sees it, were the Tories and ultranationalists who brought on the first World War, and the fascists and Communists whose fanaticism and civic savagery made a shambles of the peace...
...Moscow and then carried in by East European and even Western diplomats who daily braved the Red Guard gauntlet. The Russians even filled their swimming pool with water in case the Chinese should shut off their supply. In Peking restaurants went up signs: "Out of bounds for Russian revisionist swine and dogs...