Word: mushing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ronald Doig made one interesting discovery in studying the sailor: it made no difference to his two feet of small intestine whether he got predigested or ordinary food. Says Althausen: It proved to be 'just as good for him to have steaks and chops as that predigested mush, which is very expensive and tastes...
...first time since V-J day, to go out and do the things they always wanted to do. The little man was able to park his car in front of a meter and keep his pennies; he was able to punch that windbag who lives upstairs right in the mush without fear of retribution; he was able to speak his unclean mind, and look smugly at his luminous watch dial. The little man was able to let off steam, to show haughty contempt for the forces of stratified authority. Tomorrow, the little man will be able to go back...
...judge by The Man Who Lived Backward, the Florida sun has reduced Author Ross's butter-pat leftism to a soft, liberal mush. He spreads it thick on every page of the novel. Yet, at the same time, Ross clearly feels a futility in the brand of liberalism he professes. In this confusion of feelings, he apparently could not decide whether to satirize or eulogize his intellectual liberal hero; so he did both. The result is a hectic sort of politico-literary game of tail-the-donkey, combining some elements of post office. What rescues the book from total...
...them Author Moravia tackles one of writing's trickiest problems, telling what happens to a boy in the transition between childhood and manhood. Writers describing this haunting, tragicomic change of life too often bog down in self-pity and autobiography. But Moravia has pared away all egocentric mush from these two hardheaded stories. They have the clarity and bite of a good, dry Orvieto wine...
...Living & the Dead. The Elegies are poetry of a visionary kind that has not been mush practiced since Dante. In the heat of Rilke's vision, life & death are welded together into a world without end. "Life," he explains, must be kept "open towards death." To illustrate his meaning. Rilke speaks to the living in the First Elegy as if he were already dead...