Word: lecherous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...here that his best self survives, a peasant from the other side, unsophisticated and uncorrupted by ambition or guile. Decades later, when Palka's wife dies, he still cannot bring himself to reveal his true identity. "Who is Sam Palka?" he asks himself. "An old lecher who has made a fortune and doesn't know what to do with it. David Vishkover is a man like my father, peace be with him. Well - and what would happen to Channah Basha if she should hear the truth? Instead of becoming Sam Palka's wife, she would become David...
...this late stage in the Pepys-watching game, the diarist has become his own literary character whom biographers must attack or defend according to their tastes and their times. To 19th century moralists, for instance, Pepys was that most off-putting of hypocrites: a pious lecher - a Uriah Heep who could preach sanctimoniously to a fellow tomcat while he himself was goatishly seducing pretty Mrs. Bagwell, the carpenter's wife...
Conductor Bernardi has a discreet, controlled way with Mozart that was especially beneficial to some of his younger singers-notably Dutch-born Sonja Foot as Constanze and Montreal's Anna Chornodolska as the maid Blonde. Bass Joseph Rouleau, a regular at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, was lecher-perfect as the Pasha's harem keeper, Osmin. The star of the evening, though, was the five-year-old National Arts Centre Orchestra, a chamber-sized ensemble of 46 that Bernardi conducts in concert during the winter...
...huge plastic bag. The deceased in fact is a professor of logic named McFee. Like McFee, all the Jumpers are professors of philosophy at the college where Dotty's husband teaches. They have been organized as gymnasts by the vice chancellor of the college, an unscrupulous bounder, lecher and pragmatist called Sir Archibald Jumper. "McFee's dead," Jumper announces. "Shot himself ... in a plastic bag." The question is why. "It's hard to say," replies Jumper. "He was always tidy...
...calm assumption that these hideosities, and others, are quite normal. Emma's eleven-year-old son has changed, for no clear reason, from a bright little boy into a neurotic homunculus. Her husband, slyly cast as a successful publishing exec, is an insane hypochondriac and grunting lecher. Worst of all, her cheerful, friendly black maid, who quit some time ago to start a catering business, is hired to run one of Emma's dinner parties and turns up utterly transmogrified into a hostile militant...