Word: hedonist
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...catcalls-plus a Pulitzer Prize). The ANTA production's glittering stars: the U.S. theater's Grande Dame Helen Hayes and Producer-Director-Playwright George Abbott as mankind's eternal Mr. and Mrs.; Musicomedienne Mary Martin as Mr. and Mrs. maid and humanity's eternal hedonist, raising hell in halcyon eras and doubting heaven in adversity...
...mind of the wandering student, it had also made him a solitary. As a boy he played no games, and in all his life he never used a typewriter, or drove an automobile, or danced. He never married. An esthete and a skeptic, a materialist and a poet, a hedonist but of few pleasures, Santayana's mind might have been paralyzed by its conflicts had he not built for himself a sort of monastery of beautiful prose, which was greatly admired by the literary if it was sometimes suspected by philosophers. Santayana's first work had been...
...when it is not trying to be like Norman Douglas' South Wind. It is as far from either model as it is from the double target roughly caricatured in the description of Professor Lissom. The professor is somewhere south-southeast of Philosopher Bertrand Russell and the plump Bloomsbury hedonist, C.E.M. Joad. All that fidgety Satirist Menen succeeds in doing in his jape is to remind the reader what neat debaters those...
There is the Florence of Leo X, the Medici pope, who ruled in hedonist splendor, true to his dictum: "Let us enjoy the Papacy, now that God has given it to us." That Florence is preserved in the proud perfection of the city's stones...
...Churchill, and says Winnie to me" stuff any better. As to the swimming pool you so thoughtfully reproduce. . . . If he believes that nudity is a prerogative of the idle rich, I would urge his attendance at the mass rites at Coney Island any summer Sunday. But Mr. Sheean, lush hedonist, has his inevitable moment of compunction when he changes to his near-Marxist line, like the man who doesn't kiss, but tells. Perhaps he is best described by your quotation from this book, which he innocently applies to others-"The seriousness of their interest in the question could...