Word: copiously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...copious quotations from Aiken's poetry and the accompanying long interpretative passages by Mr. Peterson make one feel at times as if the poetry were a sort of program music to be explained in the prose terms of psychology such a Paranoia, Megalomania or various other complexes. In these interpretations the poet's relationship to T. S. Eliot is indicated and also in certain later poems a streak of morbid bitterness is traced to the Elizabethans, Donne, Marston and Webster. The abstruse nature of Aiken's poetry can be seen in the conclusion as to his five symphonies written between...
Last week his executors announced that the seventh volume was already in publishers' hands; the eighth was so nearly completed when Dr. Channing died that little more must be added from his copious notes...
...company is that selected by the author and they fulfill the requirements of his lines thoroughly. There is no individual star, although occasionally the excellence of some one of them draws the warranted applause of the none too copious audience. In fact there is but a single weak point in the performance and that is the conclusion which lets one down with something of a jolt. A rapid and pleasant crescendo suddenly dwindles off into absolute nothing, but is compensated by what goes before. If you have not seen this you most certainly should at the earliest opportunity...
During this time the plane did not retreat from the twister but impudently dodged about it. Trusting to powerful motors which drove them along at 127 m. p. h. the crew took photographs, copious notes...