Word: eunuch
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Richard Wagner rates the fattest dossier in Slonimsky's book-27 pages. He was called, among other things, a Communist (in 1855), a madman and a eunuch. Slonimsky himself believes that, for pure vehemence, criticism of Wagner has seldom surpassed that of the German historian, J. L. Klein, who wrote in 1871 of "the diabolical din of this pigheaded man, stuffed with brass and sawdust, inflated, in an insanely destructive self-aggrandizement, by Mephistopheles' mephitic and most venomous hellish miasma, into Beelzebub's Court Composer and General Director of Hell's Music-Wagner...
...born, but rather becomes a woman . . . It is civilization . . . that produces this creature, intermediate between male and eunuch . . ." From childhood she is "fated . . . to be the passive prey of man," to awake in him "an unknown being whom he recognizes with pride as himself." What man dreads above all, Author de Beauvoir believes, is woman's ceasing to be his most priceless "idea" and becoming very much like himself. For this reason, he never pries into the recesses of her mind: it might give her the notion that she has a mind. On the other hand, there...
BLAST their weeping whiskers-hirsute RHETORIC of EUNUCH and STYLIST-SENTIMENTAL HYGIENICS ROUSSEAUISMS (wild Nature cranks) FRATERNIZING WITH MONKEYS DIABOLICS-raptures and roses...
Most scientists, reiterates TIME, Aug. 13, believe in God. It would be interesting to know if these learned men could say, as did the eunuch baptized by Philip: "I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God." If they can say this, I argue, then this country is on the verge of the greatest spiritual awakening in history. If they cannot, we are plunged once more into a sterile pantheism, Fatherless and cold...
...Libido. Hatterr decides to get into the swami racket himself. But just as he and his partner are about to put on their big show for the gullible, he learns what his own billing is to be: that of a saintly eunuch who has surgically rendered "his id and libido null and void." Much attached to his id and libido, Hatterr scoots off into the brush...