Word: odiously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Archbishop had observed in advance: "Talking trivialities is in itself a portent of great significance. The pleasantries may be pleasantries about profundities." He seemed relieved that the interview had been private: "I am quite happy there were no pictures. All sorts of things might have been read into them-odious comparisons made...
...France and the U.S. The most prized national characteristic, it was argued, is the universal belief among Britons that they possess a superb sense of humor. British writers, in fact, use humor to put across "a social message which might otherwise seem either boring or too plainly parsonical." Comparisons, odious though they may be, were inevitable. Where "an American novelist wishing to criticize advertising, does so headon, with moralistic violence," says the Times, a Briton, e.g. Aldous Huxley in Antic Hay, takes a gentler and-inferentially-more engaging approach. Writers such as Kingsley (Lucky Jim) Amis similarly express...
...rebellion towards authority: but he is a far more complex character than Ariel (and than usually portrayed), and it is from his lips that the word "grace" eventually issues. Hyman captures most of the complexity. When he emits those horrible words, "Burn but his books!"--especially odious for those of us who recall Senator McCarthy--the b's burst like bombs (significantly, Caliban's language is liberally peppered with plosive labials). Yet Hyman shows us the pathos of this bastard brute too, and he underlines Caliban's dim gropings for aesthetic values in that great speech beginning. "The isle...
...formula of hiring, for instance, as a qualified candidate for the junk-heap, simply because it discourages so many younger teachers of quality from coming here and effectively prohibits giving tenure to other desirable scholars. But his more important reservation about this fine faculty concerns its relationship to the odious undergraduate body. The great scholars have every right to ignore undergraduates (it is sometimes difficult to understand why more of them do not) and squat in a corner of Widener deciphering Ogam Stones. One can only hope, for their sake and the University's, that what most of them produce...
...addition to speaking and publicizing the "odious" aspects of the affidavit, members of the group will visit Harvard and Radcliffe students from key congressional districts and encourage letter-writing. It is estimated that 15 members of the House Committee on Education and Labor will be particular targets of the group's efforts...