P11
1.
The Spanish War… turned the scales …: The Spanish
War and other events made me finally decide my motive
for writing—my accurate political orientation.
2. totalitarianism: the practice and principles of
a political system in which a single person or a political
party controls all thought and action and does not
allow opposition parties to exist
3.
Everyone writes of them in one guise or another: Everyone
writes about these subjects in different forms (in
different aspects).
4. And the more one is conscious of one’s political
… integrity. : The more one is sure of (about) his
political attitude (views) the better one can express
it (them) without loosing the beauty of the language
and intellectual principle (losing the unity of the
beauty and intellect of the language).
P12
1. partisanship: action of supporting a party
2. get a hearing: get the readers to hear me
3. love the surface of the earth: love nature
4. solid objects: concrete, tangible things like trees,
mountains
5. scrap: small piece or bit
6. reconcile: settle, set straight, make up, harmonize,
rectify, adjust, conciliate, winover, reunite
7. ingrained: inborn, inbred, inherent, innate, deep-seated,
deep-rooted; implanted, rooted, intrinsic
8.
The job is to … on all of us. : My work (concern)
is to combine into one my deep-rooted emotions (my
likes or dislikes) and domination collective social
movements (activities) of the time we are living in.
