Word: lumping
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...chief literary agent in such matters is the fictional character Pierre Costals, an aristocratic writer, libertine and dedicated bachelor whom critics, rather unkindly, assume to be Montherlant's alter ego. "Literary men," Costals caustically observes, "attract crazy women the way a lump of rotten meat collects flies." And Costals is, indeed, a man much beset by marriage-minded females, most of whom begin by writing unsolicited letters to him. One, a peasant girl named Thérèse Pantevin, informs Costals that because of his novels she envisions him as her spiritual savior; when he advises...
...VARIETY of visceral reasons the Faculty will probably be tempted to punish severely the students who sat in at Paine Hall. Some will quickly lump the R.O.T.C. demonstration with those against Robert McNamara and the Dow Chemical Company and conclude that this sort of thing can't be allowed to happen year after year. Others will be particularly offended because this Fall it was the Harvard Faculty, not unknown outsider like Dow's Mr. Leavit, whose usual business was interrupted...
...terribly moving thing, listening to Temple Drake talk about her days in the Band. "When I enlisted," she says with the hint of a lump in her luscious little throat, "I was just naive. I thought bands were supposed to do good things. Oh, like, you know, make people happy with gay music and inspire Love of Country with the national anthem. Things like that...
...insisted Friday that the situation at Columbia was "directly analogous" to the long chronology of the German student movement that his audience listened to just before they heard him. Perhaps because the difficult struggle of revolution unites those of similar causes, Rudd feels sympathetic to the Germans. But to lump together two such different and complex situations as the same is one of the dogmas of the old academics that new thinkers of the New Left are supposed to be trying to escape...
...Sunday? Says Freberg: "We have to have somewhere to lump all those leftover commercials, don't we? Think of it! Twenty-four glorious, uninterrupted hours of advertising...