Word: eunuchism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Joseph books almost require a second reading. Readers will be likely to enjoy this big book only when they have looked back upon the immense pattern of the story, the array of characters-Joseph himself, his father, Jacob, his brothers, the scribes and stewards of Egypt, the courtly eunuch Potiphar, his sexually frustrated wife, the two dwarfs (in whom Mann personifies the principles of ineffectual goodness and potent evil), Pharaoh, the sermons of the bald-pated Egyptian priests, the astronomy, history, architecture, concepts of life & death-and the similarities and differences in the ancient legends of different people that Mann...
...latest utterance on the course of the postwar U.S. is a typical example. The entire bill is in generalities only. He accused Ball of trying to emasculate his bill-a eunuch cannot be emasculated...
...your excellent article on Hesketh Pearson's biography of George Bernard Shaw [TIME, Oct. 5] you quote H. G. Wells as having called Shaw "an intellectual eunuch." Wells has plagiarized the phrase from Byron, who in his satirical dedication of Don Juan said of Milton...
...intellectual eunuch Castlereagh...
Intellectual Eunuch. With his fiery reputation, red beard and white complexion, women found Shaw fascinating. They disagreed with a critic's description of him as looking like "an unskillfully poached egg" or being, as H. G. Wells said spitefully, "an intellectual eunuch." He fell blissfully in love with Socialist Poet William Morris' daughter May. But she married a mutual friend. In later years he admitted that May had a mustache, insisted that "it made a pair of lines so decorative that they would have enchanted the finest Maori tattoo artist...