Word: picklish
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...Hypothesis." Julian Huxley is a nervous and abrupt man with somewhat the same kind of awesome intellect and donnish wit as his younger brother, Aldous (Brave New World).* Julian's tongue hurts as often as it humors; he was once described as "alternately cherub and pickle." In his picklish mood, he often puts people off with a burst of terrifying temper. Some delegates had reservations about picking a man who has professed atheism ("I do not believe in God, because I think the idea has ceased to be a useful hypothesis"), birth control, eugenic mating, state planning...
...concluded, was "a perfect throwback to the more primitive days of the Republic . . . ? waxwork figure of a Puritan boy, out of the social museum that is rural Vermont." and remained throughout his career a 100-year time lag personified. Most of the evidence-Coolidge's penny-pinching, picklish personality, Yankee cunning, sentimentality, provincialism-fits Author White's thesis. Placed against the teeming, speculative post-War U. S., Coolidge offers one of the most ironic studies in U. S. politics and Author White makes the most of the contrasts...
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