Search Details

Word: eunuchism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

When the week began, Mohammed Mossadegh seemed safely on top. The Shah was in flight; the fanatic mullahs' and the stubborn Majlis' opposition was hidden or cowed; the army was a sullen eunuch; the world resigned. Who was there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: The People Take Over | 8/31/1953 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Lexicon for Critics | 5/4/1953 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lady with a Lance | 2/23/1953 | See Source »

BLAST their weeping whiskers-hirsute RHETORIC of EUNUCH and STYLIST-SENTIMENTAL HYGIENICS ROUSSEAUISMS (wild Nature cranks) FRATERNIZING WITH MONKEYS DIABOLICS-raptures and roses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Raging Briton | 4/14/1952 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 3, 1951 | 9/3/1951 | See Source »

Previous | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | Next