Word: lipping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, in a game that settled the white man's 1947 championship, the casualties were almost too minor to mention -one cracked lip, one barked shin. Civilization and 300 years had changed the game, but it still could not be called sissy. To avoid broken bones and bruises, modern players wear armor: forearm pads, shoulder pads, heavy-duty gloves, a helmet. And they have made a science of self-defense...
...wine the English language may be for a foreign writer of parts who has thoroughly acquired it. Bend Sinister, Vladimir Nabokov's second novel in English (he has written seven in Russian), is one of the most intelligent nightmares of dictatorship in modern fiction. It is also a lip-smacking over the flavors of English prose to rouse the tired syntax in 10,000 editorials. Nabokov's style glimmers with reflections of many great styles (Gogol's, Flaubert's, Joyce's) and yet is distinctly his own: rapid, brilliantly metaphorical, daintily savage and smooth...
...also comes to doubt that the artist is really blind. His effort to find out, in a walk along the lip of a cliff, is a hair-raising piece of melodrama. Quieter, but no less exciting, are the nasty undertows of purely psychological uneasiness, as the members of this perverse triangle take each other's measure...
...level of the most stunted book buyer. There Was a Time is packed to the boards with the kind of hatred of people and of the world that is often felt by the most normal man. But it is always balanced by Author Caldwell's cautious and frequent lip service to such equally human aspirations as love of humanity, tolerance and faith...
Before I read your article I was under the impression that "The Lip" received a raw deal, but now, Commissioner Chandler was I right in his judgment...