Word: parsonian
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...Wiener writes in The Nation article that evidence about Parsons' post-war recruiting activities may quash the renaissance in Parsonian scholarship...
...book. He just doesn't stop to sweat out expressions." As a result, Toward a General Theory of Action was nicknamed. "The Yellow Peril," and the publishers called in a graduate student to clarify the writing. This graduate student later became one of Parsons' closest collaborators, but not before "Parsonian Prose" had become a permanent part of the faculty vocabulary...
...manifestations" are not warm, his great interest in students indicates otherwise. Nearly all who know him attribute his reserve to "excessive modesty" and shyness. After a few cocktails at a party, one friend jokes, his real warmth begins to glow. Similarly, while he usually speaks with painstaking care, his "Parsonian Prose" colors a bit when he defends Oppenheimer...
...highest rating ever won by the show. What viewers saw was a sudsy narrative with all the impact of a souffle hitting a concrete wall. In a slick amalgam of film and live TV, Teresa Wright played Gossipist Louella to near-perfection, catching the whining needle of the Parsonian voice and delivering ex cathedra pronouncements on Louella's likes (dancing, pretty clothes, dogs, young people, food and Hollywood) and dislikes (being called "Lolly," being lied to about stories, being doublecrossed by news sources). Lolly's headlong pursuit of trivia was highlighted by interviews with a passel of film...
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