Word: aphorist
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...learns, was a "distant admiration." Joyce was a doubtful quantity: "I don't know that he's got anything very interesting to say." Henry James emerged as "faintly tinged rose water." Ezra Pound was "humbug." Aldous Huxley, "in spats and grey trousers," proved eminently resistible. The elegant aphorist Logan Pearsall Smith left an impression of "perfect sentences of English prose served up in a muffin dish, over a bright fire, with the parrot on a perch...
...German scientist, critic and aphorist, whose name apparently strikes Carelman as inherently grotesque, like Major Major, P.D.Q. Bach or the presidential ticket of Wintergreen and Throttlebottom...
...makes for a jarring discrepancy of mood without any compensating illumination of meaning. Act I is fun and naughty games. In it, Philip ends up in bed with a Venus's-fly-trap of a girl. His fiancée Celia (Jane Asher) pairs up with a cynical aphorist out of early Aldous Huxley. This hedonist with a literate leer acquires luxuriant narcissistic finesse from the performance of Victor Spinetti...
...Earthy Aphorist. If the public was slow to discover Blair, young avant-garde artists were not. Such radicals as Edward Kienholz and Billy Al Bengston forgathered at the old house Blair had bought in Los Angeles, admired his paintings and delighted in his company. Blair always gave them coffee (he kept careful records on just how each guest preferred it) and his own home-baked bread, for which he won many prizes at county fairs. Afterward, everybody pitched horseshoes in the backyard and listened to Blair's inexhaustible tales of his and other people's pasts. His speech...
...Harford mansion. Simon, an erstwhile poet turned gimlet-eyed merchant, agrees-if he can absorb the entire firm and expunge his father's name. Deeper shades of Oedipus. In the end, mother goes mad; Simon and Sara's doom seems to await another play. The collegiate aphorist in O'Neill has sententiously announced: "Success is its own failure...