Word: overlush
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...Overlush & Overplush. More Americans with more spending money have come on down this season than ever be fore, and the tycoons of Miami Beach have been working night and day to give them what they are supposed to want...
...send their children to college, who live in decent homes, who study after working hours to keep up with changing technology and modern invention, who have first names and last names, who have the right to vote and the right to protest, whose ancestors turned trackless forests into overlush wheatfields, prairies into grazing lands...
Such virtuosity is put to even more effective use in Cambridge Seasonal, which I would call his finest work. In this paean to an academic community, Freeman's generous treasure of words does not seem overlush or recondite. He wields the recherche with deftness and then undercuts it with a wonderful transition to the commonplace. Part III ends with Longfellow "Englishing his purgatorio ... while a spirit-lamp warms the coffee up." Part IV shatters this academic fantasy and brings us back to earth...
Last week the old cry of "let's go to Bricktop's" was being heard again-but in Rome. And Romans, weary of overlush Neapolitan songs, were going for her with a rush...
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