Word: prig
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dean) is really a good guy at heart, but there is no one around to tell him he is "no good" because his father has rejected him. His pranks are worthy of a Tom Sawyer--but the complication lies in the fact that his brother Aaron is not a prig or toady, but a good guy too. To further complicate the situation, Alma (Julie Harris), the "Becky Sharp" of the story is Aaron's girl...
...tool of the "Middlebrow Counter-Revolution.'' With much justice, Critic Macdonald ridicules the involved Cozzens style. With far less justice, he maintains-in a dubious bit of critical mind reading-that Hero Winner is not really the character Cozzens had meant to create; he is a prig, where Cozzens wanted to create an ideal man. In fact, Arthur Winner, like most men, is a mixed character-part righteous man, part self-righteous-and as such he will long continue to fascinate readers...
...Stopped (by Maxwell Anderson and Brendan Gill; based on the Gill novel) deals with a classic stage theme: a fight over a will. It uses classic combatants: the disinherited black sheep and his self-righteous brother. As the glib playboy with a rusting charm (Richard Basehart) and the sententious prig with a rankling virtue (Kevin McCarthy) trade slurs-while their sister (Mildred Natwick) waves an olive branch -they lay siege to the holdings in the family vault via the skeletons in the family closet. Out, eventually, clatter illegitimacies and suicides and a crushed father image. And the disinherited playboy...
...slapper proved to be a paid agent of a group of nostalgics who call themselves The League of Empire Loyalists. He was fined a quid ($2.80) for his violence, but the sentiment that prompted it-disgust at a young peer who had dared to call his Queen a prig in print (TIME, Aug. 12) -was echoed even in the words of the sentencing magistrate, who declared that "95% of the population of this country are disgusted and offended by what was written, but your action only made a most unsavory episode more squalid...
Noah Had Three Sons. In 1880 young Anton was 20 and all but the sole support of a threadbare clan of eight. His grocer father was too broke to keep his family in staples. His two older brothers were swaggering Moscow bohemians. No prig himself, Anton can confess: "I was so drunk all the time that I took bottles for girls, and girls for bottles...