Word: jigging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first fragment (54 pages) was published more than 30 years ago-inspired by the impassioned morbidities of Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground. But most of the final 330 pages, written in the last years of the author's life, strike up a more and more Rabelaisian jig...
...hard to keep the big-bellied sail full that sometimes, with two men working at once, they could stand only 15-minute "shotgun" watches without relief. On corrected time, no boat seemed to have a chance to catch the Constellation, and Dutch Captain Frank Hooykaas did a happy jig of victory...
When they chose Communism, Cowart danced a jig of joy, but after seven months of stern indoctrination his joy turned to disillusion. Instead of getting the university courses the Communists promised, the three were sent to labor on collective farms in drought-scarred Honan Province. As Cowart tells it, they rebelled, refused to work, made trouble and thus earned their freedom...
...stables each morning, he bawls at the top of his lungs: "Tessie! Tessie! Where are you?" Tessie immediately trumpets back her greeting, and the two engage in a bellowing match as he tries to put Tessie through her tricks until finally Tessie gives in, obediently does a jig, salutes, rolls over and retrieves a handkerchief...
...semi-solemn fun-with-Freud and what-every-Jung-man-should-know. Moreover, its prose is so plain that a roomful of safecrackers and their molls might well while away the hours before the gelignite goes up by browsing through the work. Its most startling feature is a questionnaire jig-sawed by Authors William Gerhardi (holder of the Czarist Order of St. Stanislav) and Prince Leopold Loewenstein ("a graduate of the University of Vienna"). Although both authors lack professional psychiatric qualifications, their couchside manner is soothing as a deep trance, their text chockablock with neat quotes from Greek Philosopher ("Know...