Word: besottedness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Heart County. Flood will win a large audience unlikely to be daunted by this tendency to lapse into an emotionally besotted verbal debauch just when a clear eye and unblurred speech are called for. Nor will Flood be damaged on the bestseller lists by its old-fashioned bawdiness.
Honor Tracy, who has written the classic of modern Irish farce (her wonderfully vicarish novel, The Straight and Narrow Path), unaccountably neglects this rule in The First Day of Friday. Good Intentions is there all right (young Michael Duff, the impoverished Protestant squire who wants only to marry his Dulcie...
Powell fans-a small but besotted class of addicts-will be enchanted by this early piano exercise before he developed his small but sure range of chamber-music orchestration. The action of the book moves about the peeling off, in successive layers, of Waring's false colors. His reported...
The long dalliance with the fretful young fop Douglas begins with besotted love notes ("My Own Boy, it is a marvel that those red rose-leaf lips of yours should have been made no less for music of song than for madness of kisses") and reaches its most wretched state...
THOM Gunn's third and latest book of poems takes its title from a jaded but "treble-sinew'd" Antony's invitation to "one other gaudy night" before the reeking dishonor of Actium. Insofar as this volume has a central theme, it is a study in types of heroism, which...