Word: flaccidly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While many of their colleagues at home grew flaccid in chairs guaranteed them by state contracts, in the U.S. they found a spirited and highly competitive atmosphere. They also found a rising climate of orchestral prestige...
...should all this happen? It happens because the College still seems to find unbearable difficulties in making a profitable distinction between professional scholarship and a more general education--or rather, when it does make this distinction, it lapses into flaccid indirection. Not that this is the departments' fault: outside of tutorial, departments are too busy to concern themselves specially with undergraduates. But granting this to be true, it is pure foolishness to give the special fields unregulated control over the most essential instruction of more than 300 Freshmen...
Lolita has lost her nymphet rating since she left the perverse and remarkable novel by Vladimir Nabokov, and the resulting film romance between a knowing, nubile teen-ager (Sue Lyon) and a middle-aged emigre (James Mason) is commonplace and flaccid. Peter Sellers provides much-needed comic relief...
Lolita has lost her nymphet rating since she left the perverse and remarkable novel by Vladimir Nabokov, and the resulting film romance between teen-ager (Sue Lyon) and a middle-aged emigré (James Mason) is commonplace and flaccid. Peter Sellers provides much-needed comic relief...
...academic audiences (the book is a sheaf of speeches and book introductions-the sort of collection that writers publish when they haven't written anything), he makes most of the familiar complaints. The intellectual is homeless; the poet is campus-bound; today's grammar-school education is flaccid; the American is merely a well-trained product buyer who knows, when in Weimar, "how to buy a Weimaraner." JarrelFs lectern jokes are rather good ("People who live in a Golden Age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks"), but his lamentations over the mass culture seem conventional...