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Word: pother (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...late Justice Curtis Bok of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court was famed for the wit and sense of his legal writing; he remarked once, while discussing the unnecessary pother raised by bluenoses about sex in literature, that if a man were in the mood to be sensual, he would be aroused by reading the Mechanics' Lien Acts. Justice Bok was also a novelist and a sailor. In the best sense of the rapidly blurring word amateur (one who does something, perhaps very well, solely for his own pleasure), the judge wrote two well-received novels about courtroom life and made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Love in Fine Paragraphs | 10/19/1962 | See Source »

...oddly enough, the harder one looks, the blurrier the words become, as in those diplomas by Cartoonist Saul Steinberg. The first third of the book concerns the pother that arises when a sick giraffe kicks a keeper to death and, in the process, as is obligatory these days in symbolic works, emasculates him. In the book's second third, the irascible old men who run the zoo squabble violently over a plan to transport the animals to a game preserve on the Welsh border. But the energy of their manias is fussed away to little effect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Animal Crackers | 11/3/1961 | See Source »

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