Word: goatish
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...midst of the debate, goatish little Paul Joseph Goebbels, who is completely sold on the psychological value of reprisals, tried a new threat: he said that if the Allies did not stop their mass bombings of German cities, he would exterminate Germany's Jews...
...would astound and conquer the musical world. Such a feat bowls over Amelia Cornell (Olivia de Havilland), who has a violin scholarship in a conservatory and at first explains that she will hear no music that is not "classical." When Amelia in turn bowls over the conservatory's goatish old patron (Charles Winninger), his son, and the dignified young manager of his radio factory (Jeffrey Lynn), the score is ready for a mildly entertaining melange of melody and misunderstanding...
...held the shucking knife. By the turn of the century he was a crack western public utility man, and by the time he moved into Manhattan at 35 to set up Henry L. Doherty & Co. (utilities investments) he was a millionaire and had feathered his chin with a goatish beard to impress Wall Streeters. The beard failed to work, and Mr. Doherty had to borrow money in Europe until Wall Street got to know him better...
Enid Starkie has tried to separate some of the sheepish facts from the goatish fictions, to lift some of the fogs, prune some of the poison ivy out of the laurels. With unhurried, neutral efficiency she shows how this sensitive son of an army captain and a penny-pinching peasant became first a debauched child poet, then a "wild boy" whose Russia was all Europe, then a castaway...
From Homer on, hardly a serious poet has been without a guardian conscience which he called his Muse. To the Greek poets, the Muses were goddesses who led a life apart from the bullheaded and goatish gods but were, like them, bland absentees. After paganism, when Christianity started trying to hatch out a more personal and better world, the Muse turned from goddess to angel-like Dante's Beatrice, who spoke to him from heaven. But with the Renaissance, poets found their angels nearer home and less angelic: in Elizabethan times, on the streets and in the Court...