Word: ingrown
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...life. The small town had its defects as a place to live in, and urban Americans who know it only from the pages of Sinclair Lewis, Sherwood Anderson and other look-back-in-disgust fiction-eers are likely to think of the small town only as narrow, ingrown, stunting. But for many, life there had its compensations -countryside within walking distance, acquaintances rather than hurrying strangers on the streets, and a serenity that city dwellers cannot even imagine...
Critics, says Walter Jackson Bate, are most fond of authors with complex styles. By this standard Horace is the perfect subject, since an inflected language gave him almost total liberty with word placement, and an ingrown poetic tradition furnished him with limitless chances for allusion. Commager nimbly unravels the syntax and shows how it functions artistically, indeed visually, throughout the odes. He is extremely alert to Horace's sophisticated manipulstion of such literary conventions as the pastoral and the spring song. Horace, as Commager proves, used these stock patterns as the basis for subtle and ambivalent statements about love...
...former Justice Charles Evans Hughes, who successfully on an anti-war ticket Presidency in 1916, the 45-year-old or tried to establish himself as a candidate." His rivals in the Republican George Cabot and Democrats Edward Ted Kennedy. Hughes cited of those brand-name proof that Massachusetts become ingrown...
...Alsop is not a Jeremiah. He is just an intensely ingrown Democratic partisan...
...that Thebes was out of favor with his god. In ambition, though not in tragic cost, Brasilia might also be compared to St. Petersburg (now Leningrad), erected on inhospitable marsh, at a cost of more than 30,000 lives, to gratify Peter the Great's passion to open ingrown Russia to the Baltic and to Western influence. Kubitschek also looks west, but inwardly: he proposes to populate Brazil's vast domain carved out by 17th century bandeirantes -half-savage frontiersmen-but never settled. In the world's fifth largest country, he says, "enormous fertile lands...