accidental self-destruction...
before the evil atom weapon made possible by science destroy all
human beings in a planned way or by accident.
8...yet both racing to alter that uncertain balance of terror that stays the hand of mankindwar...’s final change that unstable balance of However both trying to weapons and this balance of weapons could prevent human beings from launching their final war.
9. So let us begin anew,
remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness..So let us begin once again to . realize that politeness does not mean weakness.
10. Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors.
I suggest both sides try to use science to make wonders for
human beings rather than terrors. 11. ...each generation of
Americans has been summoned to give testimony to its national loyalty. There are Americans from every
generation who answer the call of the country to prove their loyalty to the country.
12. With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love... Our certain reward is our good conscience and history will judge our deeds, therefore, let us try to be pioneers in building our beloved country. Unit5
1.The slighted mention of the decade brings nostalgic recollections to the middle-aged...
At the very mention of this postwar period ,middle-aged people begin to think about it longingly. 2.The rejection of Victorian gentility was , in any case ,inevitable .
In any case,an American could not avoid casting aside middle-class respectability and affected refinement.
3.The war acted merely as a
catalytic agent in this breakdown of the Victorian social structure... The war only helped to speed up the breakdown of the Victorian social structure.
4...it was tempted ,in America at least, to escape its
responsibilities and retreat
behind an air of naughty alcoholic sophistication...
In America at least,the young people were strongly inclined to shirk their responsibilities. They pretended to be worldly-wise, drinking and behaving naughtily. 5.Prohibition afforded the young the additional opportunity of making their pleasures illicit... The young found greater pleasure in drinking because Prohibition, by making drinking unlawful,added a sense of adventure.
6...our young men began to enlist under foreign flags.
Our young men joined the armies of foreign countries to fight in the war.
7....they fun before the whole thing “wanted to get into the turned belly up.The young wanted to take part in ”
the glorious adventure before the whole ended.
8...they had outgrown towns and families..These young people could no
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longer adapt themselves to lives in their hometowns or their families. 9..the returning veteran also had to face the sodden,Napoleonic cynicism of Versailles,the hypocritical do-goodism of Prohibition...
The returning veteran also had to face the stupid cynicism of the victorious allies in Versailles who acted as cynically as Napoleon did,and to face Prohibition which the lawmakers hypocritically assumed would do good to the people.
10.Something in the
tension-ridden youth of America had to (Under all this force and
“give”...
pressure)something in the youth of America,who were already very tense ,had to break down. 11hopeful young writers , their
....it was only natural that minds and pens inflamed against war, Babbittry, and gentility, should flock to the “Puritanical” traditional artistic center... It was only natural that hopeful young writers ,whose minds and writings were full of violent anger against war, Babbittry,and
“come in largen numbers to live in Puritanical” gentility,should Greenwich Village, the traditional artistic center.
12.Each town had its which prided itself on itself on its “fast”set unconventionality...
Each town was proud that it had a group of wild ,reckless people,who lived unconventional lives.
Unit71.
the swallows soaring, the Festiva With a clamor of bells that set l of Summer came to the city Omelas.The loud ringing of the bells, whic
h sent the frightened swallows flying high, marked the beginning of the Festival of Summer in Omelas. 2. ..Their high calls rising like the swallowshe music and singsing.’ crossing flights over tThe shouting of the children could
be heard clearly above the music and singing like the calls of the swallows flying by overhead.
3. ..Exercised their restive horses before the race.
The riders were putting the horses through some exercises because the horses were eager to start and stubbornly resisting the control of the riders.
4. Given a description such as this one tends to make certain assumptions.
After reading the above description the reader is likely to assume certain things.
5. This is the treason of artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.An artist betrays his trust when he
does not admit that evil is nothing fresh nor novel and pain is very dull and uninteresting.
6. They were nature, intelligent, passionate adults whose lives were not wretched.
They were fully developed and intelligent grown-up people full of intense feelings and they were not miserable people.
7. Perhaps it would be best if you imagined it as your own fancy bids, assuming it will rise to the occasion.
Perhaps it would be best if the reader pictures Omelas to himself as his imagination tells him, assuming his imagination will be equal to the task.
8. The faint insistent sweetness of drooz may perfume the way of the city.
The faint but compelling sweet scent of the drug drooz may fill the streets of the city. 9. Perhaps it was born defective,
or perhaps it has become imbecile through fear, malnutrition and neglect.
Perhaps the child was mentally retarded because it was born so or perhaps it has become very foolish a