Assorted words from 'the last of the great European male revolutionary socialist intellectuals' (Cornel West): Raymond Williams (1921-1988)
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POUM Antifascist Militia card issued to American marxist Harry Milton. On 20 May 1937, Milton saved George Orwell's life after the writer was shot through neck by sniper on the Aragón front, by quickly stopping bleeding. In Catalan reflecting party's strong (Marxist) Cat identity
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With its sheltering mountains, the Glynmawr valley lay broad and green. To a stranger Glynmawr would seem not a village but just thinly populated farming country
- Border Country, 1960
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In 1791 [Jeremy] Bentham defined the anarchist as one who 'denies the validity of the law...and calls upon all mankind to rise up in a mass, and resist the execution of it', a sense again near that of early [definition of] democrat
- Keywords, 2nd ed., 1983
#anarchism
There is no single relation between the nature of a society and the character of its literature, but there are significant and possibly significant relations which seem to vary with the actual history
- The Long Revolution, 1961
For thirty miles he had been able to look back at the mountains, at the blue peaks and the long grey ridge, gradually lowering in the sky. Now, when the last contact had gone, he looked at a different country, flat and open
- Border Country, 1960
Most of T.S. Eliot's mature work was in drama: in the plays from 'Murder in the Cathedral' (1935) to 'The Elder Statesman' (1958)
- Drama From Ibsen to Brecht, 1968
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**Copy of Border Country in the Marie Curie charity shop in Bracla, Bridgend
The word [Genius] is now so widely used to describe any and all kinds of exceptional ability that survivals of the older sense of characteristic disposition are often ambiguous
- Keywords, second ed., 1983
For even an institution as wholeheartedly commercial in production and distribution as the cinema, it had been possible, and indeed remains normal, to watch a film as a whole, in an undisturbed sequence
- Television: Technology and Cultural Form, 2nd ed., 1990
At last Will took the note and scribbled:
I cannot sign,
I cannot write,
I lost my pen
Last Sunday night
Brychan wrinkled his nose disapprovingly, then folded the paper and carefully passed it back
- Border Country, 1960
A note had been passed to them, from Phyllis Rees:
Sweetheart now, who you may be,
Sign and pass it back to me.
This was usual, but they had to think of a good answer. They looked at each other, widening heir eyes
- Border Country, 1960
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A skilled theatrical craftsman might well remain satisfied with such a situation, and go on writing plays for stock. But #Ibsen was always an artist, for whom the communication of significant experience must be the primary concern
- Drama From Ibsen to Brecht, 1973
Huckleberry Finn, in its middle sections, creates a general reality within which the personal narrative gains breadth
- The Long Revolution, 1961
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The objective viewpoint, in Pirandello, as in later writers like Ionesco, is a total criticism of the possibility of a knowable world: the centre of what is now called 'absurdism' though many essentially different things are confused with it
- Drama From Ibsen to Brecht, 1973
