Word: jehovah
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there was not an artist worth a damn at work in America. "Any pleasant thing in symmetrical trousers" passed for poetry; American literature was pervaded by "magazitis," i.e., the dry rot of the high-toned magazines. Sneered Pound: "It is well known that in the year of grace 1870, Jehovah appeared to Messrs. Harper and Co. and to the editors of The Century, The Atlantic, and certain others, and spake thus: 'The style of 1870 is the final and divine revelation. Keep things always just as they...
...Omnipotent. Sometimes, says Psychiatrist Ebaugh, a doctor has so much self-love that he must "preserve the illusion of omnipotence . . . the doctor who plays God." His patients, if they do not get better or do exactly what he says, "must bear the brunt of a revengeful Jehovah and assume full guilt for their failure to recover...