Word: clamant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long, dim view of this nuptial speedup is taken this week by the Christian Century: "By what great shift in sociology, psychology, temperature or radiation are we to account for that clamant coupling of pre-ministerial students which threatens now to turn our dormitories into nurseries, our campuses into playpens, our graduate colleges into preschools? Ordinarily we would plead for no ivory tower, but if the choice is ivory tower or brooder coop, the remoter symbol looks better all the time...
...conducting with the wild iconoclasm of his public utterances, the explanation may lie in the fact that he is a man little compelled either by circumstance or temperament to dwell on the tragic issues of life. It is perhaps therefore only natural that his ebullient energies should seek clamant relief in attacking what he calls "this age of high comedy," in spectacularly pricking that "whole boil and bubble of insanity" which he says he sees around him and which so exasperates him that he is often driven "to hold his sides with laughter...
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