Word: guttering
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...Gutter. Cancer is a picaresque-didactic novel whose hero is a monster of eloquence, a high-spirited low character-Henry Miller. At one level it is a long locker-room anecdote told with unquenchable gusto by a born raconteur, anxious that all should share the grandeurs and miseries of being down and out in Europe, among the Lost Generation...
...that afflicted even such masterly performers as Samuel Butler, Rousseau and Stendhal, not to speak of a swarm of modern confessionists. After writing his mother's life-partly, of course, as she told it to him-O'Connor has no pity left to spend on himself. "The gutter where life had thrown her was deep and dirty," he notes. But, like her son, Mother was a bit on the fey side. With the innocence they shared, they forded the gutter undirtied. A quality that O'Connor variously calls "gaiety," "simple-mindedness" or "belief in the world...
...during two hours of inspired invective, he summarized a subcommittee report labeling McCarthy's charge of Communist penetration of the State Department "a fraud and a hoax" on the U.S. public. Defeated that fall by politically unknown John Marshall Butler, who was actively backed by McCarthy in a gutter campaign featuring a phony composite photograph showing Tydings in apparently friendly conversation with Communist Earl Browder, Tydings won nomination to the Senate in 1956 but withdrew from his last political scrap because of ill health...
...three years ago to become a playwright. His first effort, The Zoo Story, an affecting work about the failure of communication between a lonely outcast and a smug square, had its première in Berlin, where it was hailed as "the Götterdämmerung of the gutter." Albee has since turned out four more one-act works, is currently working up from one-acters toward full-length drama by writing a two-act play that seems unlikely ever to appear on a midtown marquee. Its title: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf...
...there is plenty of raw nature later on, in Faith's shocked first view of Jacques, hirsute, leering and shamelessly voiding in the gutter. As the summer day becomes more oppressive, his face and form become obsessive-at a tea-shop window, in a doorway, clomping along with his crippled leg like an ogre in a bad dream. Jacques' deformity, of course, is in the eye of the beholder; as Author Kaye sees it, the tramp is whole and the world is emotionally crippled...