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Word: cloacal (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1934-1934
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...worshipper of James Joyce. "To my mind he is a very able man, but not different in kind from other able men; only more brilliant and ruthless than they, and with a preference for what H. G. Wells has styled the cloacal. In that field he is a past-master." Aldous Huxley "is still baffled by the number of entries in the Encyclopaedia Britannica. . . . He has a greater capacity for wisdom than any encyclopaedia-stuffed man of this era; and may yet lead his generation, and the younger generation, into a state of grace out of which great things will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Literary Guide | 12/3/1934 | See Source »

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