Word: demy
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...were a glass of their own villainous retsina wine. Author King overexposes and underdevelops his hapless English hero, but his color shots of Corfu are snapped with the eye of a Matisse, and Patrick's departure from the Ionian isle seems like expulsion from a demi-paradise...
...questing soul, and across it flash revealing images of a time, a place, and a class. For Lewis' memoir reflects a public-school England-more courageous than moral, more devoted to good form than to the good-that shaped many men who still make headlines. This England, demi-paradise and demi-hell, is the inevitable setting of Lewis' own personal search...
...Harvard faculty will be rocked by an expose of the local jewelry store that sells bogus Phi Beta Kappa keys. Crane Brinton will abandon his professorship to become a section man at Sarah Lawrence. Seven alumni of the class of '18 will picket Mem Hall crying, "Veritas has become demi-tasse and these hallowed halls have termites!" Three business school students will be arrested for smuggling the newly banned copies of Playboy over the state line...
...from Apollo, who out of love for Admetus' punch-bowl tricked the Fates into accepting a substitute. He voiced an ironic distress at the death of his wife, Alcestis, who volunteered to die for him after his senile parents declined the gambit. She was revived by the demi-god Heracles, also out of love for the punch-bowl. But Admetus saw his monstrousness and found little happiness at her return...
...18th century there had emerged in England a demi-reputable tradition of the "dismal trader," although for a long time the undertaker used to inspire communal shudders (in ancient Rome he was barred from politics). Now he had become "a strong, presentable man with a good suit of black clothes of his own"-and the scene was set for The Great American Funeral...