Word: assing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fact got so preoccupied with his craft that he has left out the most essential ingredient of the poet's art: passion. Neither Dick Abberville, the old man re-creating in memory his long-dead elder brother Andrew, nor Andrew himself, part "Marvelous Boy," part "romantic ass in diplomatic dress," ever becomes compellingly alive or even psychologically distinct...
...seems no very good reason for observing them. Wilson's heroine is a lower-middle-class Englishwoman named Sylvia Calvert who at 65 retires as a manageress of a seaside hotel and goes with her reprobate husband to live with their widowed son. The son is a braying ass who busies himself with the affairs of his community, one of Britain's scientifically planned New Towns. He has a snobbish daughter and two sons, one a homosexual and the other a ban-the-bomber. A great deal of space is devoted to demonstrating that these people are what...
...annotate the text of the Bible." Christopher Fry apparently was not told this because, although the Bible gives no hint what instrument Cain used in killing Abel, the Fry Bible does. In showing the world's first fratricide, Fry has the psychotically jealous Cain pick up an ass's jawbone-si, si, Samson, an ass's jawbone-and bash Abel. The jawbone was custom-built out of hard rub ber. Cain missed Abel's upper cranium the first time he used it, and the scene had to be interrupted for nearly a week until the black...
...which is a mite embarrassing to Coach Arad McCutchan, 52. Arad is an odd name ("My great-grandfather picked it out of the Bible. It means 'a wild ass' "), and McCutchan is an odd coach. A balding, soft-spoken math teacher, he has a notion that the game ought to be played for fun. He wears flaming red socks ("for luck"), dresses the Purple Aces in bright orange road uniforms and warmup robes of yellow, red and green because "I like some color, and purple is hard to see." McCutchan limits his own recruiting to the environs...
...Mindful of the fact that you live in an agricultural country," rumbled Cushing, "I presume you know what an ass is. We read in the New Testament that our blessed Lord rode on an ass in triumph into the city of Jerusalem. Today the Lord rides on another ass: I myself...