Word: languidly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lowell House candidate for membership in Y.A.A. was of a pallid countenance, of a languid manner and with an eye in which there was a dreamy, furtive expression. He presented no appearance whatever of having any red blood in him, but he was a student of Aristotle, which seemed to be a hopeful sign...
POLITE ESSAYS-Ezra Pound-New Directions ($2.50). The casual but by no means languid prose of a great verse stylist. Sometimes crotchety, more often bright and sound, Ezra's remarks concern the works of Dante, Joyce, Ford Madox Ford, Harold Monro, Laurence Binyon ("The younger generation may have forgotten Binyon's sad youth, poisoned in the cradle by the abominable dogbiscuit of Milton's rhetoric.") Also his famous piece on "How to Read...