Word: escapists
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...first confused and even shocked by "ammoral conditions" in the new urban centers, and also seeking to provide the increasingly large percent of the American population who led dull, "stay-at-home" lives with escapist literature, authors around 1870, such a Bret Harte with his "sentimental minors", concentrated largely on travel and "local color" throughout the united States, said Goodbody...
...that Author Cuppy is an escapist. Even extinct he is willing to tackle anything from "Do Fish Think, Really?" to "Are the Insects Winning?", often with disquieting results. He even attacks the bloated reputation of Aristotle, though granting that Aristotle "of course, was frequently right, for it is almost impossible, under the laws of chance, to be wrong all the time. Thanks to him we know that the Weasel does not bring forth its young by the mouth, as held by Anaxagoras. He also denied that Hyenas change their sex every year. He was only guessing, but it sounds like...
Victory (Paramount). In its present phase of escapist entertainment, the cinema can think of no more useful place to train its cameras than on the moody background of the East Indies. And no writer of English fiction used that background with more skill than Polish-born Novelist Joseph Conrad. Sooner or later, Hollywood was sure to dig further into his work for a scenario...
...There was one challenge that famed Escapist Harry Houdini would never accept: he would never allow his thumbs to be tied behind his back by a Gloucester fisherman...
...story of an American escapist, Thunder Rock takes place in a lighthouse on an island in Lake Michigan, includes in its cast the ghosts of a handful of immigrants drowned in a shipwreck in 1849. Talking things over with his spooky companions, the hero of Thunder Rock discovers that the pessimism of 1849 was just as profound as that of 1939, resolves with no great originality to abandon his lighthouse and come to grips with life...