Word: loutish
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...seen in the six cells definitely painted by Fra Angelico, represent Fra Angelico at his strongest and purest. To portray The Mocking of Christ, he painted a regal, blindfolded Christ figure crowned with thorns; the throng of jeering soldiery appear only as a group of disembodied hands and a loutish head, cap raised in sarcasm, spitting upon Christ. By abstracting all but the essential central image, Fra Angelico makes the eye travel through a curve of space to return endlessly to its starting point-the perfect movement theologians ascribe to the contemplative soul...
...abandoned English country seat (it has lost its identity, too) for the club's annual convention. A task force under Captain Mallet recruits a domestic staff of local people. In almost no time, the frantic overworked village doctor is persuaded that he is really happier as a loutish gardener ("The whole nation is on its last legs," he shrieks, "or rather on its doctors'!"). Poor but genteel Miss Paradise and her brother are so skillfully transformed by Captain Mallet that they forget they are related, and settle down happily as housekeeper and butler. The process of persuasion...
Every college possessing any self-respect possesses a football team and the stars of each team are highly paid. The American universities profit through this practice alone fifty million dollars in one transitory season. These modern gladiators receive on the basis of their brutal loutish swindling, a scholarship plus a bonus which averages fifty dollars for each game. Indeed, on close examination, no other type of player may be seen on the thousands of professional teams participating in this wild, catch-as-catch-can style of game...
...Geneviève was all for the idea, but her hopes so far are pinned on "a letter telling me that a group of Congressmen were hoping to invite me as an official guest of the U.S." Word drifted around Genoa that Egypt's deposed King Farouk, whose loutish antics have endeared him no more to Italians than to the Egyptians he liberated by departing, had not exactly been blackballed for membership in the elite local yacht club. The club's 12-man council merely dropped him a registered note, asking him to pretend that...
...past decade, such loutish antics have kept Truth or Consequences among the top-ranking radio shows. Last week, sponsored by Philip Morris, hearty, toupee-wearing M.C. Ralph Edwards moved his slapstick-and-bladder show onto television (Thurs. 10 p.m., CBS-TV). "This is just the genesis, the little seed," he boasted of his first TV performance. "I have the feeling that, within the first half-dozen shows, we'll get into the top five TV programs...