Word: animus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This sort of spoofing aside, the book has a deadly serious animus: its real intention against Eliot is not to tear him for his bad verses but to attack him for his principles-which Eliot once oversimplified in his self-description as "an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature, and a royalist in politics." Lapsing into angry prose, Author Purcell elaborately accuses Missouri-born Thomas Stearns Eliot of being a reactionary, a Christian, an American, a spoilsport and ployer of anti-lifemanship, a sociologically irresponsible escapist. In a typical passage, Purcell complains that "The very great improvement...
...hastily assured the British that he had expelled Glubb not from any animus against Britain but because Glubb had become a liability both to Britain and himself. Pointing to his cheering subjects, he asked: "Don't you think the spirit of the crowds might have been quite different if we had not dismissed Glubb...
Much of this bitterness was beamed at President A. Lawrence Lowell. Lowell was accused of a personal animus towards Baker, but he hastily denied it. "This was not a matter of personal feeling at all; we just felt that the enthusiasm for the drama here at Harvard might very well be enthusiasm for Baker, and that if we spent $700,000 on a theater we might be left with another white elephant like Memorial Hall when Baker was no longer here. We didn't want him to go, but we did hope he would stay on our terms. We hoped...
...Mary's hope that readers of this biography will find it free of "the animus which, regrettably, is part of the human make-up." The hope, regrettably, is not justified. Every last frailty and intimate secret of Bernarr Macfadden is exposed by Mary and her ghost with such relish that by the time they are through with him, the Father of Physical Culture sounds much more of a human being than he ever did before. Moreover, Bernarr takes on unexpected stature as the modern pioneer of the low-heel shoe, the bed board, enriched flour, sun bathing, brief swimsuits...
...characters he discerned a primordial image called "the shadow," which was usually embodied in figures like Satan. Others were the "anima" (the "woman in man," i.e., the female component of the masculine psyche, represented concretely in images ranging from Helen of Troy to the modern pin-up girl), the "animus" (corresponding male image, in the female psyche), the "great earth mother" (representing the material aspects of nature), the "wise old man" (personification of the spiritual principle, i.e., God). If all mankind dreamed more or less alike in its legends and religious symbols, it was reasonable to suppose the existence...