Word: farragoes
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Under the lovely searching of his voice, the whole wild farrago ("Look, look, the dusk is growing! My branches lofty are taking root. And my cold cher's gone ashley. Fieluhr? Filou! What age is at? It saon is late") pacifies into meanings felt if not altogether known. The passage is a rueful promise of what might have been if Joyce had lived to read the whole of his titanic rune...
...Well, bully for Drs. [Duncan] Reid and [Mandel] Cohen for injecting a little common sense into all this "natural childbirth" farrago [TIME, March 13]. Britain's Dr. Grantly Dick Read and his cohorts have got women feeling that they're hopeless neurotics if they don't have their baby between the bean-rows and get back to the harvest in 15 minutes...
...Pairs of Underwear. Communist newspapers took up the hue & cry, screamed that Mindszenty's reputation as an anti-Nazi was unmerited, that he had been "a notorious anti-Semite." Climax of this farrago was the charge that the Nazis had arrested Mindszenty only because he refused to give up his hoarded "1,500 pairs of underwear...
...farrago of wild charges, ill-tempered shots at Latin American governments as well as his own, and oldtime partisan oratory, snowy-haired Hugh Butler charged that over three years the U.S. was spending $6 billion to win friends south of the border. (In an appendix, his figures grew to $8 billion.) Into the cost of Good Neighborism, Butler had even put the $75 million cost of operating the Panama Canal. He had charged to Latin American good will the $292 million the Navy spent on Caribbean and Canal defenses...
...Japanese answer to Mr. Hull's memorandum. It was a flat rejection of the U.S. proposals. It was also an incredible farrago of self-justification and abuse...