Word: passosian
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...bestseller about a clerical Organization Man called The Cardinal, knows that his costume throbbers are nonsense. Unlike Taylor Caldwell, for instance, who writes the same sort of novel with more earnestness and less skill, he stops every few chapters and snickers at himself with a pun or a Dos Passosian aside. And if the reader celebrates each such instance by pouring himself three fingers of pot still whisky, he will reach page 621 handily...
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