Word: langourous
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...honest my very first Pudding show. Never having arisen from my splendiferous langour early enough to get tickets before the inevitable sell-outs. I missed not only the legendary opening nights and kick lines but also the less than legendary second nights and third night and soon. So the Pudding show has the same kind of serenity that Harvard does, things may change the Grenadians come and go--but the Pudding show, so I'm told stays the same. Oh, they change the title every year, and they rearrange the puns, but the boys keep dressing up like girls...
...ONESELF TOO seriously is always a gamble. Failures that lesser writers could get away with leave gaping holes in Hawkes's work. Allert's wife, Ursula, for example, never quite achieves mythic stature and threatens to remain little more than a parody, lounging about in a state of perpetual langour that is supposed to suggest sensuality. Hawkes only makes things worse with his clumsy explanation...
...however A. His illustration includes one of the key "Wake Up the Grader" phrases--"It is absurb." What force! What fall! What fun! "Ridiculous," "hopeless," nonsense," on the one hand; "doubtless," "obvious," "unquestionable," on the other, will have the same effect. A hint of nostalgic, anti-academic langour at his stage may well match the grader's own mood: "It seems more than obvious to one entangled in the petty quibbles of contemporary. Medievalists--at times indeed, approaching the ludicrous--that, smile as we may at its follies, or denounce its barbaries, the truly monumental achievements of the Middle Ages...
...frighten you; for we will pay all the damages of your vandalism, but will not allow you to be molested." This, in effect, is what the meeting of Tuesday means. When public opinion is thus spineless as a caterpillar on so important a matter, it is no wonder that langour and indifferance are to record in athletics. No doubt it would be disagreeable for a college "man" to inform the authorities against one of his class; but this is not a question of personal pleasure, it is a question of duty. You undergraduates hold in trust the buildings and material...
...present presented at other colleges leaves no loop-hole for excuse as to individual tastes and talents which might be better fostered by a special rather than by a regular collegiate course. While special study at a large university will always offer a high premium to lassitude and constitutional langour it can but in few instances be pursued at Harvard to greater advantage than the regular course. The curriculum which is now offered to the regular students is so extensive that a college course can be made to comprehend all that any special course could include. Why then should special...
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