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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

nd stupid because of fear, poor nourishment and neglect.

10. Its habits are too uncouth for it to respond to humane treatment.

The habits of the child are so crude and uncultured that it will show no sign of improvement even if it is treated kindly and tenderly. 11. Their tears at the bitter injustice dry when they begin to perceive the terrible justice of reality, and to accept it.

They shed tears when they see how terribly unjust they have been to the child, but these tearsdry up when they realize how just and fair though terrible reality was.

Unit8

1.....below the noisy arguments , the abuse and the quarrels , there is a reservoir of instinctive fellow-feeling...

The English argue and abuse and quarrel with people may hotly each other , but there still exists a lot of natural sympathetic feelings for each other in their hearts. 2....at heart they would like to take a whip to the whole idle troublesome mob of them.

What the wealthy employers would really like to do is to whip all the workers whom they regard as lazy and troublesome.

3...there are not many of these men , either on the board or the shop floor...

There are not many snarling shop stewards in the workshop,nor are there many cruel wealthy employers on the board of directors.

4.It demands bigness ,and they are suspicious of bigness.

The contemporary world demands that everything should be done on a big scale and the English do not trust bigness.

5.Against this , at least

superficially ,Englishness seems a poor shadowy show...

At least on the surface ,when Englishness is put against the power and success of Admass , Englishness seems to put up a rather poor performance. 6....while Englishness is not hostile to change,it is deeply

suspicious of change for changes sake...

’Englishness is not against change, but it believes that changing just for changeuseful purposes is very wrong and ’s sake and not other harmful.

7.To put cars and motorways before houses seems to Englishness a communal imbecility.

To regard cars and motorways as more important than houses seems to Englishness a public stupidity.

8.I must add that while Englishness can still fight

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