Word: lawrentian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lawrentian's editor explained that he realized there had been an error "only when I saw Dr. Tarr's words reprinted in another context...
...bladder full of hot air. With the real pornographer, the sex circus is too solemn for comic treatment. Miller's tone at times suggests that a committee of longshoremen has taken over the management of a bal-musette. The words for the climaxes of love are not Lawrentian evocations of the impossible mysteries of sex but "paff! paff! After that it's paff, paff, paff!" Miller moves into the most preposterous bedrooms like a voyeur without curiosity-only with a hoarse guffaw and a derisive yet somehow kindly eye for farce and foible...