Word: crudest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...understand why a gentleman should employ 30 pages to describe how he turns and returns on his bed before going to sleep." When that first volume, Swann's Way, finally appeared in print in 1913-at Proust's expense-an influential critic dismissed the author as the "crudest of improvisers...
...Things Past -4,578. The Master himself has turned into a series of literary images, perhaps at the expense of his own work. There is le petit Marcel in his fur-lined greatcoat, posed like a sad Charlie Chaplin. Or running from salon to salon: the funniest and crudest young man in any room. Or crouched motionless before a rose, as if he could devour it and the whole world just by looking. Finally attention is drawn to those eyes: great smudged pools, staring like a lover at life and death. The eyes of a Jew, a homosexual, an invalid...
...return for this, what they have been doing at home, aside from selling out, and actually here we can take the crudest Marxist interpretation and do very well, provided that we don't talk about some Greek bourgeoisie-better talk about foreign capital. It's really an exercise in modern imperialism. Greece is a beautiful example of what neo-imperialism does. It's a crude story, so crude that you don't have to be too well-read to understand. The reading is there...
There are many young writers with healthy reserves of rage and chaos, some indeed with little else. What distinguishes McHale is not only the fertility of his invention but the humanity-remarkable in a writer of 28-that penetrates even his crudest caricatures...
...call your seatmate Charlie O. (for Oral). He is not just a minor nuisance, but the personification of a major menace. People today tell complete strangers things they once wouldn't have confessed to a priest, a doctor or a close friend: their crudest fears; their most shameful inadequacies; their maddest fantasies. We are witnessing something like the death of reticence...