Word: prig
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Public sector work is also available with various public interest groups, such as the Massachusetts Public interest Research Group (Mass PRIG) and Massachusetts Fair Share. Summer positions involve door-to-door canvassing, fundraising, and political outreach. The hours, two to ten p.m., may be more favorable to some students than the normal nine-to-five track. Salary is based on the funds raised by the individual canvasser...
...anthologies have usually been more serious than that, and often sound suspiciously perfect. Le style, c'est I'homme. General Robert E. Lee is said to have gone in 1870 with just the right military-metaphysical command: "Strike the tent!" The great 18th century classicist and prig Nicolas Boileau managed a sentence of wonderfully plump self-congratulation: "It is a consolation to a poet on the point of death that he has never written a line injurious to good morals...
...dreamless days of young men who grind dyes in the "slab room" of a carpet factory near Glasgow. When first produced in New York, off-Broadway in 1980, the play seemed a programmatic denunciation of the social order, as personified by two pompous functionaries and by a blazered young prig who was passing through the slab room on his foreordained...
...just like their marriage: civilized, ruefully witty and without the slightest resonance. Blythe Banner has an agreeable asperity as Joan; Michael Moriarty has a disagreeable whininess as Richard. He should have been dissuaded from an attempt at an Ivy League accent, which turns him into a male chauvinist prig. But let the blame fall where it truly belongs: on a scenario by William Hanley that is without persuasive incident or dialogue, direction by Fielder Cook that is without texture or viewpoint. The aim here was obviously to do something elegant and up-market for television. The result is a bloodless...
Daughter Gillian (Ellen Parker) is a venomous feminist whose speeding on the liberation freeways has brought her an abortion and several emotional casualties. As for Younger Son Charles (Robert Burns), he is something of a militant prig, spared the worst of Bernard's blight through the harmonious offices of his wife-to-be's parents. This girl, Gwen (Jessica Drake), is mocked by the family for her lack of sophistication, but she is a judgment on them in the simplicity of her goodness...