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Word: mcgeeney (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...figures inhabiting the horse. One is a naked but derby-hatted fellow named Maloney the Areopagite, who is writing the life of Saint Puce, a flea that was born in Christ's armpit. Another is John Raskolnikov Gilson, an eighth-grade schoolboy who wants to sleep with Miss McGeeney, his English teacher. In order to make his views known ("How sick I am of literary bitches. But they're the only kind that'll have me"), the boy has written a pamphlet that sounds very like West's own credo: "I always find it necessary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Great Despiser | 6/17/1957 | See Source »

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