Word: chapping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Strutting Peacocks. Sapone's flourishing trade belies the image of the painter as a rather threadbare chap. The younger and more impecunious may seem indifferent toward clothes, but the more prosperous often prove to be strutting peacocks. Before Sculptor Jean Arp died in 1966, recalls the tailor, "he would walk through a party in Paris, twiddle with his lapels and say to people, 'Sapone, eh oui, un Sapone!' " The definition of un Sapone varies widely...
...strange, unfriendly world. Young Balthazar's only male friend throughout his introverted existence is a chap named Beefy. An aristocratic orphan whose real name is also Balthazar, Beefy seems to be the protagonist's alter ego. Beefy is boisterous, tough, brawling, and given to priapic pranks. Starting with Beefy's expulsion from school for being a self-confessed "magnificent masturbator," their shared adventures-sometimes poignant, often comic-turn into wretched disasters...
...visionary than Owen's. Owen's came out of the particular circumstances of the trenches, and there is nothing to make us think that if he had not been on the Western Front ... he would not have warned anyone about anything at all. He would have been a nice chap and a quiet poet. With Sylvia Plath, her femininity is that her hysteria comes completely out of herself...
...showing. "You are not men." He has demoted at least one captain to private, but has also been known to pick a good man from the ranks and make him an officer. When he recently elevated a private to 2nd lieutenant, one of his officers complained: "My dear chap, we can't have someone in the mess eating with his fingers." Steiner, who speaks French and German, replied that he did not care if the man ate with his feet, as long as he was a good soldier...
...give today's young protesters pause to discover that way back in 1943 this chap Wylie was throwing verbal Molotov cocktails at authority, the church, motherhood, scientists and economists. His book Generation of Vipers, written in a mood of "ribaldry and rage," became a famous bestseller. True, it did not inspire street riots or start campus revolutions, but at least it gave aid and comfort to thousands of as yet un-Freudianized young men and women who wanted to reject their mothers...