Word: groaningly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lack of conviction and values, unable, in the face of the failure of language and thought, even to speak, much less create a play; powerless, without a belief in absolutes, to believe in the absolute of his art; left, when the only true meaning is in silence, only to groan. Leib has, in a way, belied his vision by actually writing an eminently successful modern play (this should be called Terry by Terry by Terry), but it is no less disturbing as a result...
...personified in Dr. Benway in Naked Lunch. But he is no Miniver Cheevy. "In many ways of course everyone knows that life was more pleasant a hundred years ago. On the other hand, of course, most of us would be dead," he said in his WASP/aristocrat groan. "I sometimes take a census of the number of my friends who would be dead if they had lived a hundred years ago and it's almost a hundred per cent...