Word: potpourri
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...dialogue was delivered not only with Georgia drawl but also with Georgia poor-white, obscene explicitness. The pathetic humor of the play prodded the social conscience as well as the funny-bone. After seven years of audience accolades, reviewers, who once had passed it off as a pornographic potpourri, cautiously re-appraised it as "deservedly popular." "Tobacco Road," the most famous play since "Abic's Irish Rose," was a success...
...this Freudian potpourri a father in love with snails, and scores of definitely unattractive adolescents in heavy shoes and long dresses showing figures at their worst, and you have "sweet sixteen, youth smiling through its tears"--while the onlooker bites his fingernails in depressed frustration...
Above this level come serious poems about people and places, in which Auden states his admirations and aversions, hopes and fears. The potpourri is tied together more by constant verbal virtuosity than by any underlying single-mindedness. Auden admires a hand-picked selection of the Great-his criticisms of them are acute, his praise of them generally mystagogic; he admires Love-but writes no loving poem; socially, he is a run-of-the-parlor pink-but he is a nearly bloody hater of the upper-class English "old gang." By birth Auden belongs with them; and he sees a worm...
...purge is not the way to quiet these doubts, for the Communists stand for certain progressive measures which belong in any liberal program. But the situation is hazy and formless. The H.S.U. contains on the one hand a tightly knit, unified Communist group; on the other hand a liberal potpourri. If the H.S.U. is to educate effectively, it must clear up this confusion...
...tell all. Before sending their signal, the engineers spent forty-five minutes twirling the knobs of 40 short-wave receivers, trying to catch a signal from Mars, where the highest form of life is generally believed to be some low form of vegetation, possibly resembling moss. Result: a potpourri of short-wave noises, most of them promptly identified...