Word: doltishness
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...Jack London of Manhattan's midtown. Instead, he kept on turning out novels, risking the law of averages. A Free Agent is the worst of a dreary descent. The author has lost his knack of writing badly well. Worse news, the hero is not world-wise but incredibly doltish, even allowing for the fact that he is supposed to be some kind of intelligence agent...
Pigeon Feathers and Other Stories, by John Updike. The author's ability is enormous, and his gift of language far exceeds that of most contemporaries, but these stories-a young, sensitive husband with a young, doltish wife is a typical theme-are disappointingly unambitious. Still they contain far more human perception than many a hand-heavy "major" novel...
Pigeon Feathers and Other Stories, by John Updike. The author's ability is enormous, and his gift of language far exceeds that of most contemporaries, but these stories-a young sensitive husband with a young, doltish wife is a typical theme-are disappointingly unambitious. Still they contain far more human perception than many a hand-heavy "major" novel...
Palace Irregulars. The bones of the story are familiar enough. When that most energetic and terrifying of wowsers, Oliver Cromwell, was fighting the first civil war, Charles was a 16-year-old exile whose doltish father was soon to be be headed. At 21, Charles invaded England at the head of a Scots army, but his Presbyterian soldiers were more concerned, Pearson notes, with religion and robbery than fighting, and Cromwell crushed them easily. For six weeks, before he made his way to France, Charles hid out in various guises, including that of "Will Jackson," a farmer...
...hour meal periods packaged food-trays and powdered milk will be served by members of the University Employees Union, then numbering half of Massachusett's women over 40; where, in the disturbing absence of a Faculty of Arts and Sciences, students will be taught in their Houses by generally doltish tenth and fifteenth year graduate students; and where each student suite will contain a post-doctoral research fellow as an allegedly living reminder of the prime and vital importance of the Great University to its undergraduate college...