Word: lechers
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...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...
...author-decides that Euripides spent his last years in a cave "because he had observed women closely all his life." Cather was also a prude. We are not told Marian Forrester drinks a little but merely get "the sharp odor of spirits." In My Antonia, the local lecher is obliquely indicated by the comment that he set a former housemaid up "in the business for which he had trained...