Word: languidness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the revolution, Prophet Menzhinsky became the Leninists' knout. Lenin called him "the decadent neurotic." This policeman was interested in Persian art and higher mathematics. He wrote erotic poetry and read pornographic novels in his office between executions. He was plump, languid, soft-voiced, given to blue moods. He said: "Our task is to bring culture to the masses at a terrific speed." His OGPU, successor to the CHEKA,' brought death by execution and starvation to millions of Ukrainian and other peasants...
...Ideal Husband. Paulette Goddard and a fine English cast in a lovely, languid production of Oscar Wilde's play (TIME...
...Ideal Husband. Paulette Goddard and a fine English cast in a lovely, languid production of Oscar Wilde's play (TIME...
Plainly The Old Lady is a safire castigating Ireland's fiberless present by contrasting it with her heroic past. But possibly it is also a satire about an Ireland grown languid in the present from living too much in the past-an Ireland in which everyone is so busy acting a part that no one acts. All swift scenes and no sustained story, it flares up brightly one moment, falls flat the next, and its expressionism seems dated as often as daring. But the play has much Celtic freshness of language, and the smoothness born of playing it many...
...Ideal Husband. Paulette Goddard and a fine English cast in a lovely, languid production of Oscar Wilde's play (TIME...