Word: lovelessness
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...Democrats Have Did." Playing all the factors against Hoegh is the Democratic candidate for governor, 45-year-old Herschel C. Loveless, former mayor of Ottumwa (pop. 33,000). A onetime railroad-bridge-building foreman whose education was limited to high school, Loveless speaks to the voters in shop English ("Hoegh has went"; "Democrats have did"), but he speaks a language that opens the ears. "The cost of state government when income is on the decline is the No. 1 problem in Iowa," he tells his campaign audiences. "Do you want 'High-Tax Hoegh' back in the State Capitol...
...themselves in the earth and get eaten by worms to see if that is less futile." Tom Wolfe swings a bludgeon against lawyers, pedants, critics, Communists, boosters, money-changers, sophisticates of all sorts, artistic women and snobbish men. He showers indiscriminate love on all of the world's loveless...
...immense shyness, to chide him when necessary for the "tosh" that often came from his "spinsterly mind," to assert, against all previous evidence, that he was generous in money matters, and to dispose of Oxford Don A.J.P. Taylor's assertion that "Shaw was never unhappy." Shaw's loveless childhood, drink-ridden father and hungry adolescence make it quite clear that few university dons have started life with so many handicaps or so much courage. In some versions of his life, G.B.S. seems so cold and distant that friends appear merely as puppets. Not so in this book...
...speaker of the poem, like any brutality-conditioned Williams stage character, lost at home his belief "in everything but loss," already sensed in the future the loveless acts of crude and familiar knowledge...
...reader in a gown of crimson silk, which invariably seems to have a fetish effect upon Chad. Ultimately, Chad gets Rose, but only after she 1) lives with Eustace Hawke, a sensational poet with more than an overtone of Rupert Brooke about him, and 2) goes through a loveless marriage with Billy Pascoe, a lowly rustic who becomes England's greatest atomic scientist...