Word: pelion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...considerable practice; but, not for any argument's sake, am I willing to grant that Mr. Jencks knows everything. His article is neither review nor criticism but self-exhibition,--a long-winded parade of half-baked psychiatry and sociology. He piles up platitude upon platitude like Pelion upon Ossa--for instance, "all intellectual activity is a reaction to some stimulus" (high school learning); there are the three things upon which--as he tells us--Freud's success is based (why three rather than thirty?) and so on. Where are the CRIMSON'S standards when it can publish such pretentious blown...
Some make believe they are Napoleon, and some Satan. Other favorite characters are Robespierre, Perseus and Audromeda, and Pelion and Ossa. Sometimes men dress up as women and vice versa. Mardi Gras historians are still chuckling over the time a man won first prize for the "Most beautifully dressed lady...