Word: immoralist
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...more gentle season. But alas, the streets bear the scars of the ravages of snowstorms, the trees scream in their gnarled bareness, the clouds continue to obscure the fulgent sunshine. Cambridge does not easily shake the remnants of its most brutal season. We become like Gide's immoralist, neglecting our careers, our families, and our lovers in a hedonistic hearkening to a brighter clime and sunnier shore, where mind and body can relax and regenerate...
FRIEDA LAWRENCE, edited by E. W. Tedlock Jr. In the correspondence and other collected writings of his wife, D. H. Lawrence is pictured more as a prig than an immoralist, she as a lesser but fascinating Lawrencian heroine...
...buys it if they don't know me," Miller says. "Nobody knows about either me or the book. I got a nice letter from Albert Guerard the other day, saying he was upset about the way This Passing Night was being neglected, and saying not to worry, that The Immoralist didn't sell 300 copies in five years...
...child can be too old and no adult too young. In the past, Wilde has often been reduced to the importance of reading and seeing The Importance of Being Earnest; now he is being rediscovered as a magical fabulist and as great a moralist as he was an immoralist. Wilde saw life as a fatality, and many of his fables end tragically. None can be summarized or quoted out of context, for they are mosaics into which Wilde put the man-hours that it takes to polish a diamond...
...message between his two chiseled teeth: Albert Guerard's Politburo of Comp Lit 166 favorites was re-elected almost unanimously. Topping the psychological ten, two years running, was Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! Other perennial repeats included Lord Jim, The Power and the Glory, Death in Venice, and The Immoralist. The Devils replaced The Plague, which was dropped from the course...