Word: misbegottens
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...Last Ism. Soviet critics, too, were soon after Chagall's hide, dubbing his misbegotten revolution in art a "mystic and formalistic bacchanal." But the purge came from the quarter he least expected. He had hired two painters, Malevich and Lissitzky, members of the suprematist school of painting, to teach in Vitebsk's Free Academy. One day he returned from Moscow to find that they had taken over the school, and based its new curriculum on their brand of geometrical abstraction and pure objectivity...
...would be unloved and forgotten, be reasonable." His heart smolders with love for the unlovable-volunteer fire men, science-fiction writers, the entire population of Rosewater County, Ind., his ancestral seat. To them, he disburses much money and all of himself. Author Vonnegut casts Rosewater as a misbegotten saint in a world that puts saints to the stake. Beyond that point lurks another: that goodness ought to have its head examined for trying to coexist with evil. In this book, his sixth, Vonnegut clearly establishes his kinship to the late Nathanael West, and Eliot Rosewater could easily pass...
Tammy materializes after a misbegotten seance recalls her from the dead to hex her slightly unnerved husband (Edward Woodward) and badly annoyed second wife (Louise Troy). The zany medium, Madame Arcati (Bea) leaves the trio to make the worst of things and the best of fun out of their unearthly...
...surviving son of Eugene O'Neill, has been a long day's journey into penury by way of prisons and public hospitals (for dope addiction). Disinherited by the father who had long ignored him, and unemployed since his collaboration on the 1959 bestseller, The Curse of the Misbegotten: A Tale of the House of O'Neill, the famed playwright's son was arraigned last week on his saddest charge yet: neglect of his four children. After finding not a single bed in the ramshackle Point Pleasant, N.J., home where his offspring slept on inflated swimming mats...
Keene, N.H., Summer Theatre: Moon for the Misbegotten. Eugene O'Neill's lesser-known drama of love and greed in New England...