Word: debauching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Built on the rise of the Guadarrama mountain range 31 miles from Madrid, El Escorial casts such a gloomy aspect that the Romantic Poet Théophile Gautier called it the "granite debauch of Spain's Tiberius." Even its floor plan reflects a grim occasion. The monastery is named in honor of a humble 3rd century deacon who was burned alive on a gridiron by his Roman torturers. San Lorenzo, it is said, calmly instructed the Romans: "This side's done. You can turn me over now." His coolness under trial won him a lasting place in Spanish...
...Aren't others, as well, alarmed at his public debauch, at his joyous wallowing in the insensitive, at his brazen certainty that we all will join him, slapping our thighs as we screamingly laugh at his vulgar barbs? And for this poison to be lent an aura of legitimacy simply by its appearance in your pages...
Bergson & Bosch. If Cancer was an old world debauch, Capricorn is a kind of New World Sinphony. an account of Author Miller's coming of age in New York City (1900-23). Incredibly garrulous and grotesque, the book is a disordered Horatio Alger story: escape from a poor Brooklyn boyhood, as it might have been written by Harpo Marx and Hieronymus Bosch working together. Wild philosophic maunderings sprinkled with a self-taught man's self-conscious display of highfalutin' acquaintances (Bergson, Nietzsche. Whitman) proclaim Miller's belief in the sovereignty of the heart over the mind...
...Byzantine ikon because it is static and badly drawn." Sniffed Kauffmann, in what tellectuals" undoubtedly is like not the Updike, "a last film word: to theater "in is a kind of steam bath or opium den to which one goes for a faintly wicked and figuratively supine little debauch . . . Pre sumably Miss Novak as Medea would raise him to the heights of Kimiolatry." . . . In her modest home by a Southern California orange grove, Hannah Nixon, 75, widowed mother of the Vice Presi dent, was chatting about her famous son. The first thing she made clear about Richard Milhous Nixon...